Jamie Lee Curtis Says Bashing Marvel Was ‘Stupid’ and ‘I Will Do Better’: ‘I’ve Reached Out to Kevin Feige and Will No Longer Play in That Mud-Slinging Sandbox’

Jamie Lee Curtis is vowing no longer to throw shade at Marvel Studios. The Oscar winner recently went viral on social media due to a Comic-Con interview with MTV in which she was asked to name what phase the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in right now. Curtis responded: “Bad.”

“My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better,” Curtis wrote in a statement on social media. “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.”

While Curtis admitted that publicly shading Marvel was wrong to do, she also wasn’t necessarily incorrect in her assessment of the MCU. While Marvel is back on top of the box office with “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which is bound to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box, it also had its worst year ever in 2023 with two box office flops: “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels.” The latter title became Marvel’s lowest-grossing movie in history with only $84 million at the domestic box office.

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Cutis also threw shade at Marvel throughout 2023 as her multiverse movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” opened in theaters around the same time as Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The actor went wild on social media at the time proclaiming her movie to be the superior multiverse project.

“I have nothing against Marvel as an entity. I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies,” Curtis later clarified toPeople magazinewhen asked about the playful feud. “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 was in attendance at Comic-Con to promote the video game adaptation “Borderlands,” which opens in theaters Aug. 9.