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Simu Liu is firing back at Quentin Tarantino after the Oscar-winner’s comments about the effect Marvel movies have had on the film industry.
During his appearance on the podcast «2 Bears, 1 Cave» Monday, Tarantino reflected on the state of the film industry, saying that one of the legacies of «the Marvelization of Hollywood movies» is a scarcity of movie stars.
«You have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters, but they’re not movie stars,» he said. «Captain America is the star. Thor is the star. I mean, I’m not the first person to say that. I think that’s been said a zillion times. It’s these franchise characters that become a star.»
Though Tarantino said he doesn’t «love» Marvel movies, he also doesn’t «hate» them.
«My only axe to grind against them is they’re the only things that seem to be made, and they’re the only things that seems to generate any kind of excitement,» he continued. «They are the entire representation of this era of movies right now, and there’s not really much room for anything else.»
On Tuesday, Liu, who starred in the 2021 Marvel film «Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,» appeared to respond to Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, who described Marvel films as «not cinema» in an interview with Britain’s Empire magazine in 2019.
