Samuel L Jackson is one of the most talented names in the Hollywood industry. He has given multiple hits in his expansive career and is regarded as one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction. His other box office successes that helped him establish himself as an actor include Jackie Brown, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, etc. However, he earned international fame with his entry into MCU as Nick Fury.
Being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe gave immense love and recognition to the actor. However, the Captain Marvel star revealed facing racism at MCU.
Samuel L Jackson’s character Nick Fury on Facing Racism In The MCU
Samuel L. Jackson plays the role of Nick Fury, a master spy who is the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. His recent outing was for the series Secret Invasion, featuring Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke. The actor shared in an interview with Variety about the racism he has faced in his career.
The MCU stars shared that the character of Nick Fury has not been explored well and not dealt with as a black man who has been living in America for the past 75 years.
In conversation with Don Cheadle’s Rhodey about the Skrull threat, Fury actor referred to their shared Black history. He added that men like them (black men) have to often fight for power.
Jackson said,
“Men who look like us don’t get promoted because of who our daddies know. Every ounce of power that we wrestle from the vice grip of the mediocre Alexander Pierces who run this world was earned in blood. So let’s make the power mean something. Help a brother out.”
The Nick Fury actor revealed his discussion with Secret Invasion writers about significant control over the powers of a Black man.
“[What it’s like for Fury to have] that much power as a Black man, and how they can be diminished at any moment by someone else just saying a specific thing or changing the trajectory of one’s career path because of it.”
Touching on Nick Fury and James Rhodes’ mutual rise to power, he added,
“Rhodey and Fury have risen to this place where we have a certain amount of power, even though we’re better than the people who have power, we still got to suppress ourselves in a specific way. And Marvel’s not afraid to let us explore that.”
Fury was introduced in the post-credits scene of Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man in 2008.
Samuel L. Jackson reveals his connection with Nick’s fury
In the series Secret Invasion, we get a glimpse of Fury’s past, where he and his mother couldn’t go in the dining car on the train from Alabama to Detroit. Thus, they brought their own food in a shoebox.
Director Ali Selim added how Jackson personally told them the story of Nick Fury’s past,
“It wasn’t on the page. It was him telling us a story. He’s very connected to Nick Fury in a way that no writer ever could be.”
Samuel L. Jackson explained how Fury’s story was similar to his real-life story,
“I used to take the train every summer from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. I couldn’t go in a dining car because it’s segregated. When they put me on the train, they gave me a shoebox with food in it, then I ate that food. We used things that were real for me as a person to give Nick Fury the kind of history that he has, to inform the story in a real way about, you know, how he wasn’t always this [powerful], or he does look at America in another kind of way.”
Samuel L. Jackson has worked on numerous MCU projects to date, including Captain America: First Avenger, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Secret Invasion, and more.
Secret Invasion is a television mini-series created by Kyle Bradstreet based on the Marvel Comics story of the same name.
Secret Invasion is streaming on Disney+.
Source-The Direct
