In a recent interview Tim Blake Nelson talks about how he had always hoped to come back to play The Leader in the MCU. Nelson had a small part in the early MCU as Samuel Sterns and a hint he would one day become The Leader. However, that was a long, long time ago in Hollywood. Nelson says he figured it would never happen as the years ticked by and he was upset about that.
“I deeply, deeply grieved over the prospect of not being able to come back into the MCU. All I wanted to do, as an actor, was to figure out what happens to this guy. 18 years later I got to do it and I wasn’t disappointed,” he told Variety.
“It was a great challenge and I was guided beautifully by Julius Onah, who’s an indie director. These are real directors who want to work with real actors and give them opportunities to play outlandish characters. Marvel supports that.”
Nelson also thinks talk of Marvel’s demise is premature. On the evidence of the box office for Deadpool & Wolverine I’d say he’s right, for now.
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“Marvel is an unheard-of phenomenon in movie history. Kevin Feige and his studio created dozens of connected movies that exist in one cinematic universe, to use their term. There’s no comparable achievement. So no – I don’t think it’s over,” he notes, calling “Captain America” “the most grounded” of MCU franchises – along with “Logan.”
The trade must have asked him his thoughts on Scorsese’s previous comments on superhero movies, here was that response.
“I couldn’t respect Martin Scorsese more, he’s his own genre, but I disagree with him when he derides Marvel. I come down on the side of Marvel movies absolutely being cinema. They return us to being kids again. When they are really good, and they often are, you lose yourself in them. Are they profound? Are they ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Miller’s Crossing,’ are they ‘Bicycle Thieves,’ ‘Schindler’s List’ or Kieślowski? No, but they aren’t aspiring to be. They are entertainment and there’s artistry involved in them.”
I dunno, it’s almost like film is opinion based like all art and what is good or bad is also subjective? I know radical thoughts.
What do you think of his comments as Tim Blake Nelson talks about how he had always hoped to come back to play The Leader in the MCU? Thoughts below, as always.
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