Samuel L. Jackson wants Nick Fury to go to Wakanda, and everywhere else, too
Nick Fury takes center stage in Secret Invasion, but Samuel L. Jackson feels he should've starred in some other MCU projects
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If there’s one person who doesn’t have Marvel fatigue, it’s Samuel L. Jackson. The actor, who leads the new Disney+ series Secret Invasion, is more than just a vocal defender of Marvel movies against the haters (read: Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino). He also just genuinely loves playing Nick Fury, and will happily continue doing so for as long as the MCU wants to have him. In fact, he thinks the MCU should have had him in more stuff.
“I don’t know, it’s kind of up and down for me in an interesting sort of way. Feels like I’ve been playing him forever,” Jackson told Entertainment Tonight at the Secret Invasion premiere. “If I had it my way, I would’ve been in every Marvel movie because, I mean, he is Nick Fury, he knows everything that’s going on.”
Jackson has long voiced his displeasure regarding being left out of certain key moments in MCU history. “I was trying to figure out where I was during Civil War, when the kids were fighting and I wasn’t there to say, ‘Everybody go to your room,’” he told Empire Magazine earlier this year (via DigitalSpy). “Where was I during Endgame? It’s harder for me not to be there, than be there.”
The star expressed similar sentiments in last year’s Hollywood Reporter Drama Actors Roundtable, adding his excitement at playing the former SHIELD director in a television format. “Well, I can have a whole life as Nick Fury that’s not Nick Fury at work. You know, we get to go home with me and see what happens with me at home or when I’m alone or when I’m not so strong and Nick Fury, or when I take off a back brace because Nick Fury is old,” Jackson laughed. “Some things that you can do that you can’t normally do [in the films] because the character has to present this (trumpeting heroically) duh-dunna-duh kind of front, and that’s what the movies are for. And when you get to do it in longform, you get to show even superheroes have their down moments.”
As exciting as it is to see Nick Fury in his own element, Jackson still has some MCU locales he’d like to visit. “I’m still trying to figure out why I’ve never been to Wakanda. They didn’t ask me to go, but I’m still trying to get there,” he said to ET. “I need a ticket.”
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Alas, Nick Fury is probably the *last* person Wakanda wants hanging around, what with his bold takes on who gets to keep what secrets. They much prefer Everett Ross, who they can run circles around. But there’s always hope for a team-up!
This is a really good point. He’s definitely on the no-fly list at Wakandan International Airport.
Yes but counterpoint: Samuel L. Jackson feels like he missed out on a massive Black moment.
Nick Fury was definitely Killmonger’s handler at some point.
I wish I loved anything as much as Fury loves faking his own death
I wish I loved anything as much as Fury loves faking his own death The tombstone with the Pulp Fiction-esque inscription was a lot of fun.
Well get on my horse, Nick! I’ll take you ‘round the universe and all the other places too!
Your horse is amazing!
I have so far appreciated the MCU of not following in the comics tradition of sending characters to Wakanda because they’re black and all black people know each other. “Well we’ve got this threat at home – let’s fly in Luke Cage.”
Then why do they nod and wave to each other when they drive by?
Fury dealing with growing old and the various injuries he’s received over the years— seriously, he’s maimed in Captain Marvel, shot in Avengers and Winter Soldier and that’s half of his non-cameo appearances— and having to rely more and more on being a sneaky bastard relying on younger agents to pull of the physical part of the mission? That’s got potential. It’s not something we’ve seen in the MCU; a character retiring not because they’re dead or just decide to quit, but because they’re not physically capable of it. And for a guy like Fury, who has been in the field for at least forty years and can’t help but get involved in the action has a lot of appeal.
I will never ever get sick of watching him play Nick Fury (or playing an alien pretending to be Nick Fury).
He’s right.Why wasn’t he in Civil Motherfucking War?
Yes, let’s send one of the world’s best spies to the most secretive country on the planet. What could possibly go wrong?
I want Nick in all the Marvel movies. And I mean all of them. Put him in the Power Pack movie!
Other MCU stuff he wasn’t in aside, this is absolutely not about that and entirely about the FOMO he experienced being the most prominent Black actor in the MCU outside of Wakanda yet not being featured in that film which was sorta landmark for the Black community. I bet Samuel L. encounters the phrase “how have you been in 9 of their films yet couldn’t talk your way into Black Panther??” all the fucking time.
This is just a serious case of FOMO for BP.
To anyone this isn’t clear to, Samuel L. Jackson is a Black man. Oh I just accidentally summed up this entire article in one sentence.