Samuel L. Jackson Responds to Quentin Tarantino’s Marvel Slam: Chadwick Boseman Is ‘a Movie Star’
David Mack
Updated on December 31, 2025
Samuel L. Jackson is saying something regarding Quentin Tarantino’s viewpoint that Wonder entertainers are “not famous actors.” On Tuesday, Jackson, 73, showed up on The View close by his significant other LaTanya Richardson Jackson to examine the Broadway restoration of August Wilson’s The Piano Illustration, which LaTanya coordinated and in which Samuel stars.
During the meeting, Samuel was requested his interpretation of the discussion with respect to visit associate Tarantino, who as of late said on the “2 Bears, 1 Cavern” web recording that celebrities have vanished due to the “Wonder ization of Hollywood.”
“It takes an entertainer to be those specific characters, and the indication of film fame has forever been, what, asses in seats?” Samuel said during his appearance. “What are we referring to?”
Samuel, who plays Wonder character Nick Wrath in the MCU and has likewise featured in a few of Tarantino’s motion pictures, referred to the late Chadwick Boseman as a conclusive “celebrity” from the Wonder time. “That is not a big discussion for me to realize that obviously these entertainers are celebrities,” he said on The View.
“Chadwick Boseman is Dark Jaguar. You can’t discredit that, and he’s a celebrity.”
If the only gatekeepers to movie stardom came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I would never have had the opportunity to lead a $400 million plus movie.
I am in awe of their filmmaking genius. They are transcendent auteurs. But they don’t get to point their nose at me or anyone.
— Simu Liu (@SimuLiu) November 22, 2022
Last Tuesday, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu shared his thinking that the time of film fame “was white as damnation” in light of Tarantino’s remarks.
“Assuming the main guardians to film fame came from Tarantino and Scorsese, I couldn’t have ever had the chance to lead a $400 million or more film,” Liu wrote in a Twitter post, likewise referring to chief Martin Scorsese’s presently well known 2019 remark that Wonder True to life Universe motion pictures are “not film.”
“I’m in wonder of their filmmaking virtuoso. They are otherworldly auteurs,” Liu composed on Twitter, adding that auteur chiefs like Tarantino “don’t get to point their nose at me or anybody.”
“No film studio is or at any point will be great,” Liu, who is supposed to repeat his job as Shang-Chi in no less than two forthcoming MCU films, composed on Twitter.
“In any case, I’m pleased to work with one that has put forth supported attempts to further develop variety onscreen by making legends that engage and move individuals of all networks all over.”
Liu completed his post with a basic point about how circumstances are different in Hollywood.
“I adored the “Brilliant Age” as well.. yet, it was white as damnation,” he composed on Twitter. In Tarantino’s new digital recording appearance, he told have Tom Segura that his “main grievance against [Marvel] is they’re the main things that appear to be made,” and said that superhuman motion pictures “are the whole portrayal of this period of films at the present time.”