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    Jamie Lee Curtis mocks the ‘bad’ Marvel franchise — and then walks back ‘stupid’ comments

    By Eric Todisco,

    8 hours ago

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    Jamie Lee Curtis declared war on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

    The Oscar winner, 65, shaded the superhero franchise when she was at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend.

    In a clip from her interview with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, Curtis was asked which phase the MCU is in right now.

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    Jamie Lee Curtis at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Getty Images for IMDb

    “Bad,” she bluntly responded.

    Horowitz was shocked by Curtis’ comment, as the actress and her “Borderlands” costars all burst out laughing.

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    After the remark made headlines, Curtis issued an apology on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday.

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    “My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better,” the “Freaky Friday” star wrote .

    “I’ve reached out to Kevin Feige and will no longer play in that mud slinging sandbox of competition we call the internet nor will I engage in the toilet paper promotion or game play that is designed for clicks not content or conversation,” she added.

    Curtis, who has never appeared in a Marvel movie, previously shaded 2022’s “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” while praising her own multiverse film, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

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    “Is it JUST me? Does it seem STRANGE that our tiny movie that could and did and continues to do ##1movieinamerica and is TRULY MARVELOUS, out marvels any Marvel movie they put out there,” Curtis wrote on Instagram , calling out the similarities between the posters for the films which came out two months apart.

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    She continued: “@everythingeverywheremovie has a Marvel movie coming out with a copycat poster? Is this one of those Internet feuds? All I’ll say is we would SLAY in a family feud contest @familyfeud with the Doctor Strange strangers. I MEAN WE HAVE.”

    In a follow-up post , Curtis applauded “Everything Everywhere All at Once” for its “deep beating heart and brilliant visual treats” and its “fantastic performances.” She said the movie — which also stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan — “cost less” than the “Doctor Strange” sequel.

    Curtis took another shot at the superhero flick with a behind-the-scenes video of her doing a stunt in her movie.

    “No green screen here other multi verse wannabe movies. Real people. Real places. Old school,” she wrote.

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    Benedict Cumberbatch in “Doctor Strange 2.” ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection

    In a July 2022 interview with People , Curtis clarified that she “has “nothing against Marvel as an entity.”

    “I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies,” she explained. “What I was talking about is that ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ was a little movie that could … and [we] were able to tell a multiverse story that really touched people. What I was trying to talk about was it doesn’t have to be a Marvel movie in order to be a spectacle and to really move you.”

    Curtis also said that she would “of course” work with Marvel in the future, though she doesn’t expect to ever get a call from them.

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    “Everything Everywhere All at Once” made $143.4 million worldwide on a $14 million budget. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Curtis.

    Meanwhile, “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen grossed $955 million worldwide on a $350 million budget, making it the fourth-highest grossing movie of 2022.

    In 2023, Marvel released “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “ The Marvels,” which both flopped at the box office by MCU standards.

    However, the franchise is rebounding with “Deadpool and Wolverine,” which has already grossed over $545 million worldwide since its theatrical release on Friday.

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