Jeremy Allen White says he had a meeting for a kind of Marvel-y movie, and he had an attitude

Jeremy Allen White says “I had a meeting for a kind of Marvel-y movie, and I had an attitude.”

“I think I played it all wrong. [I said]  ‘Tell me about why should I do your movie’. They were like, ‘Fuck you’ And I was like, ‘Right on.’”

Additionally, White wonders why the path for many actors seems to aim for a “Marvel movie” for their apex mountain. He showed his curiosity of the superhero genre, “I am confused at how the pinnacle of an actor’s career has ended up in that place. They get really good filmmakers to do those movies and obviously they get really good actors to do those movies…I played it the way I wanted to play it.” He adds that he’s drawn more toward a “$25 million drama that I think most actors want to make” as opposed to big-budget franchise films.

Jeremy Allen White’s career has really taken off thanks to his award-winning turn on FX’s massively popular drama, The Bear, and like so many up-and-coming stars, the 32-year-old actor has found himself being courted for a big studio superhero movie.

Unfortunately, the meeting didn’t exactly go to plan.

During an interview with GQ, White reveals that he took a meeting for “a kind of Marvel-y movie,” but believes he “played it all wrong” due to his scepticism about the genre in general.

“Tell me about why should I do your movie,” the actor says he told the executives.

“They didn’t respond well to that. They were like, ‘[frick] you.’ And I was like, ‘Right on.’”

White didn’t name the project, so we don’t know if it was actually a Marvel Studios film (it could have been one of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man spin-offs, for example), but either way, the studio heads clearly didn’t appreciate the attitude!