Jamie Lee Curtis apologizes after calling Marvel ‘Bad’

Jamie Lee Curtis apologizes for her past criticism of Marvel, calling her comments ‘stupid’

Jamie Lee Curtis has publicly apologized for her past criticism of Marvel Studios, admitting her comments were "stupid" and pledging to avoid similar remarks in the future. The Oscar-winning actress recently went viral following a Comic-Con interview with MTV, where she was asked about the current phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and responded, “Bad.”

My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better. 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…

— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) August 1, 2024

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

Curtis’s initial comments were not entirely baseless, given the mixed performance of Marvel's recent releases. While "Deadpool & Wolverine" has been a box office success, projected to surpass $1 billion worldwide, Marvel experienced significant setbacks in 2023. Both "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" and "The Marvels" underperformed, with the latter becoming the lowest-grossing Marvel movie, earning only $84 million domestically.

Curtis had previously made headlines for her playful feud with Marvel during the release of her multiverse film "Everything Everywhere All at Once," which opened concurrently with Marvel's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." Curtis championed her film as the superior multiverse story on social media.

Addressing the rivalry, Curtis told People magazine, “I have nothing against Marvel as an entity. I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies. 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 attended Comic-Con to promote the upcoming video game adaptation "Borderlands," set to release on August 9.