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Samuel L. Jackson Says He Made Fury "Naive" in Captain Marvel

Published Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:15:08 -0600

One of the fun ways Captain Marvel is expanding the universe and letting us get a new look at established characters. In this case, the character in question is a much younger Nick Fury. This is a man who doesn't know about aliens until one appears in front of him and changes his entire worldview. Samuel L. Jackson spoke to Total Film about what his approach was for playing a different version of a character he has previously played.

"I just made him stupid," 70-year-old Jackson says of playing a forty-something Fury who he reckons looks like him during The Negotiator. "Or naïve. How about that? He's sitting on a desk, in some alphabet soup organisation, trying to do a threat assessment about what's going on in the world not knowing anything about extra-terrestrials and that there might really be some. He's not so world-wise and all-seeing as the Fury we normally see."

In Captain Marvel we a Fury that ends up having a friend or even a partner. He is paired up with Carol for a good portion of the movie and Jackson talks about the give and take between the two characters.

"She saves him, he saves her. They bond in a very interesting kind of way to the point that they're almost one unit in the way that they think, move, talk and laugh. And I'll just say that we have a knock-down-drag-out-buddy-bonding fight."

There is another character that Jackson got the chance to have a lot of scenes with and that is Goose who is originally called Chewie in the comics. Goose is an adorable cat and there something hilarious Fury kneeling down to pet the cat.

"I'm sure I'll become the subject of millions of cat memes just because [of] my relationship with Goose," nods Jackson. "Throughout the movie, I'm hanging around with Goose a lot. And he was a nice cat – Reggie, the actor cat."

Captain Marvel is dropping this weekend and we'll get to see this younger version of Fury and how his interactions with Carol impact his life. This is a big moment for the character and we see the ripple effects of it in earlier movies. Now we'll get to see the initial splash.

Summary: Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Captain Marvel, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, will also star Brie Larson, Jude Law, Gemma Chan, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Samuel L. Jackson. The film is set for release on March 8th, 2019.

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