Jamie Lee Curtis took shots at Marvel for the second time after mocking Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022. During her recent appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con 2024 to participate in a game of rapid-fire questions with MTV, she was asked what phase the MCU was in, to which she answered, “Bad.” As this resulted in a backlash, the actress later issued an apology, saying her remark was “stupid” and promising to “do better.” Now, Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds shares his reaction to Curtis’ Marvel apology.
In a post on X, Reynolds seemed to defend Curtis after he shared her apology post, revealing she had reached out to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The actor can’t help but react to seeing the iconic Halloween star apologizing and questioning her move after saying sorry to Marvel.
“Wait, is everyone expected to apologize for slamming Marvel post-Endgame?” he wrote.
Reynolds himself made a lot of jokes about Marvel in his hit movie Deadpool & Wolverine opposite Hugh Jackman. There, he also made fun of the studio’s creative and box office problems. At one point, when Deadpool welcomed Wolverine to the MCU, he said the X-Man joined at “a bit of a low point.”
Jamie Lee Curtis Issued an Apology to Marvel After "Bad" Comment
After calling the MCU’s current phase “bad,” which prompted Curtis’ Borderland co-stars to laugh, she later issued an apology to Marvel. In a post on X, the 65-year-old admitted that shading the studio was wrong and promised not to compete with other people’s projects or join toilet paper promotions created to make noise.
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 or conversation.
This is not the first time Curtis has criticized Marvel, though. Back in 2022, when her multiverse film, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, was released at the same time as Doctor Strange 2, she made a series of social media posts criticizing the MCU movie.
At the time, she claimed her film could out “any Marvel movie they put out there.” She even accused Doctor Strange of using a “copycat” poster and suggested they could “slay” the “Doctor Strange strangers“ in a Family Feud contest.
However, in an interview with People in the same year, Curtis clarified that she had nothing against Marvel “as an entity” and even revealed that she had watched many of its movies. She later explained that she was only trying to say that her film could tell a multiverse story despite not being a Marvel movie.
“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,” she continued.
Though Curtis knew she was wrong when she publicly shaded Marvel, her assessment of the MCU was not necessarily incorrect. Sure, Marvel is back on its feet with the recent release of Deadpool & Wolverine, topping the box office globally and about to cross the $1 billion mark, but the studio has had its fair share of failures before that. Two of its movies from 2023, Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, were box office flops, with the latter making history as Marvel’s lowest-grossing movie and only earning $84 million.
