Forget the planned MCU phases — Jodie Foster is calling out the entire “phase” of superhero movies reigning supreme.
The “Nyad” actress and Oscar winner said during an Elle magazine cover story that she hopes superhero movies go the way of the dinosaur soon.
“It’s a phase. It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me, but it’s a phase, and I’ve seen so many different phases,” Foster said of her half-century-spanning career. “Hopefully people will be sick of it soon.”
She added, “The good ones — like ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Matrix’ — I marvel at those movies, and I’m swept up in the entertainment of it, but that’s not why I became an actor. And those movies don’t change my life. Hopefully there’ll be room for everything else.”
While “The Matrix” did spur a franchise, the film is not included in the Marvel or DC IP and was an original concept.
Superhero fatigue is indeed real, as “The Marvels” is set to become the first MCU title to fall short of $100 million at the U.S. box office. The movie opened in theaters on November 10.
Foster added that she is “OK with sacrificing a certain amount of success or access in order for me to have the life that I want,” and advised rising actors to look outside of franchise work as a whole.
“You have to have faith in your talent. You can go away for two years and have a life and come back and there will be work for you,” Foster recalled sharing among her “maternal advice” to fellow stars. “Yeah, maybe it won’t be in some franchise, but what do you care? This is your life.”
