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Samuel L. Jackson Stands by Brie Larson Against Toxic Marvel Fans: ‘Incel Dudes Who Hate Strong Women’ Won’t Destroy Her

posted 2 years ago by Evoken (1422)
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Samuel L. Jackson stood up for his Marvel co-star Brie Larson during a recent interview with Rolling Stone in which the Nick Fury actor was asked about Larson being the target of toxic Marvel fans on social media. The two actors headlined 2019’s “Captain Marvel,” which was review bombed by trolls for featuring Larson’s female superhero in a leading role. Jackson called Larson a “stronger person than people give her credit for.”

Link: https://variety.com/2023/film/news/samuel-l-jackson-defends-brie-larson-toxic-marvel-fans-incels-1235649499/

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Talk about outrage bait, lol

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18433) 2 years ago

Well, the last one made a billion despite all the clickbait videos on YT so who knows, it might help.

[–] clashwho (758) a year ago

The last one made a billion because it was sandwiched right between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: End Game.

[–] Fonz (638) 2 years ago

Well Sam is good friends with Brie Larson so not surprised to hear this from him.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 2 years ago

I like strong women, but this looks even worse than the first one.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Good for him. The hate directed at Brie was and is ridiculous.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

Agreed. I'm a Marvel fan and there is pretty consistent hate for female superheroes on discussion boards. Its really annoying and has so much to do with males who are just flat out hate women. They have likely been rejected by women and rather than seeing that as a reason for self improvement decide that its the woman's fault they are alone.

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

I hate Brie Laron and Captain Marvel and historically I have loved female superheroes. When they were done well.

Oh, and I'm married with a familiy. And have several female friends. And get along with woman at work just fine.

There are "incels" in the world. Pretending that they define every male that has a critcism that touches on a woman, is not reasonable or civil.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

Why do you 'hate' Brie Larson?

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

A better question is why I hate Captain Marvel, and that's because she is a Mary Sue that came in and upstage better characters that had been developed over many years.

Larson handled that very poorly. She came across smug and entitled and dismissive of the fans.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

🙄

Ridiculous, its couldn't be more clear from your posting history that you have a problem with women.

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

LOL. You have clearly and deeply misunderstood...everything about me.

Are you sure you are not just making lazy and self serving assumptions to give yourself an excuse to dismiss valid criticisms?

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

Okay then. How was Brie Larson smug and entitled? What did she DO that makes you say that?

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

I remember an interview with Chris Helmsworth, and the guy that played War Machine, where she was discussing how her character is the most powerful character...

A very, very big failure to read the room, sitting there with two guys who built up the franchise she was just rolling into, and upstaging.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

Can I see the video?

[–] Guitar King (5112) a year ago

https://youtu.be/81WIkfUAc_o?si=LmppjRtBilPG3NCI

[–] BeaSouth (3566) a year ago

That interview is so strange and awkward. I don’t know if it’s because as actors, they are so used to being scripted that they are no longer natural in extemporaneous conversations. The interviewer was not very natural either. Or maybe they just have no chemistry together. She also seemed to have an agenda that didn’t match the mood and several of her comments or reactions seemed artificial and harsh or self-aggrandizing. The whole thing is uncomfortable to watch. She was spot on hilarious in this skit with Zach Galifianakis
https://youtu.be/zrQHJM0rPvc?feature=shared

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

I got the feeling it was because the guys did not like her. She came across as very unlikable.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

Thanks for the link. I guess i see it as they were all ribbing each other. I love Don Cheadle and at the beginning of the interview he's like "Don't touch me." Which I don't think he meant seriously but I could understand someone thinking that they were actually being rude to each other and that she was boasting and Chris Hemsworth was arguing with her. I saw it as dry humor that came off awkwardly.

When she was boasting about her character they were all giving each other crap, teasing about her eating three pigs worth of bacon and Hemsworth not doing his own stunts and Cheadle implying that the new generation was going to mess up the Marvel films. They started the interview talking about hazing and how they were hazing her.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

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[–] LanceDance (1397) a year ago

I haven't seen any hate for female superheroes. Wonder Woman, Black Widow, Super-Girl, the women of the X-Men, people love them. People also love Xena, Buffy Summers, Ripley, Sarah Connor, Red Sonja, etc. It’s not like people woke up one morning and decided they hate women now.

What people hate are badly-written and unlikable characters - who lately just so happen to be female - that have little-to-no flaws and either easily out-perform or demean almost any man that crosses their path. Any sane person would hate that, same if it were a man demeaning women (but Hollywood would never do that, outside of parodies). People also dislike obnoxious and misinformed celebrities.

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

Remember when they emasulated his character, by having the story of his losing an eye be "scratched by cat"?

That was a slap in the face to every marvel fan.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

How was that emasculating?

[–] Breeze (134) a year ago

"scratched by a cat?"????

What on earth are you on about? He was slashed/bitten/scratched by AN ALIEN LIFEFORM.

And somehow that translates for you into a "slap in the face." *And* you get to decide for "every marvel fan."

I swear, some of you people really Are incapable of thinking clearly. Good LORD.

[–] Corbell (11005) a year ago

It was an alien lifeform in the form of a cat. It got to scratch him because NICK FUCKING FURY, was cooing over it, like he was a crazy old cat lady.

And YES, the emasculated him and slapped us in the face.

[–] BeaSouth (3566) a year ago

I don’t remember the cat. Did the alien life form have powers beyond an ordinary house cat so it would make sense it got the better of a character like Nick Fury? Because in the comics, he lost the eye as a hero with the U.S. Army in battle

[–] [deleted] a year ago

He was scratched by a cat. It was an alien, but it was a cat scratch. It got infected.

Big change from losing it in battle.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7386) a year ago

Regardless of how you feel abut the Ms. Marvel films, you gotta love their friendship.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

Samuel L. Jackson tells it how it is. Incels are bitter losers.

[–] Towelie_Towel (1786) a year ago

But it's incels that are sustaining the franchises where Samuel L. Jackson is making bank.

[–] RockAway (1657) a year ago

How is that?

[–] jk90us (8287) a year ago

He’ll say and do anything to protect his paycheck, including spewing the Disney “Our movies now suck because of toxic fans, not a lack of creativity” BS, even though no one had an issue with the strong female characters before Feige shifted everything to the M-She-U and quality sank into the toilet.

I think fans lost faith in Jackson long ago. Sad.

Wait until Disney replaces him with someone like Aisha Hinds as a female Fury from another universe. He’ll start to bitch about it.