Samuel L. Jackson finds it "crazy" how quickly he completed his nine-picture deal with Marvel. The 75-year-old actor first appeared as Nick Fury in 2008's 'Iron Man' and admitted he expected the long-term contract he'd signed would take years to fulfill, only for him to make his ninth appearance as the superspy just over a decade later in 2019's 'Captain Marvel'.
He told GQ magazine: “I knew I had a nine-picture deal. “[Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] said that, ‘We’re going to offer you a nine-picture deal.’ How long do you have to stay alive to make nine movies? "It’s not the quickest process in the world.
I didn’t know they were going to make nine movies in like two and a half years. "It’s just kind of crazy! Oh s***, I’m using up my contracts. It worked out.
” Despite his original deal expiring, the actor has no plans to retire his character and has also appeared in 2019’s 'Spider-Man: Far from Home', 2023’s 'The Marvels' and his own Disney+ series 'Secret Invasion'. Elsewhere in the interview, in which he looked back on some of his most iconic roles, Samuel admitted studio bosses had to splash out a "bunch of money" on reshoots for 2006's 'Snakes on a Plane' in order to add more swearing. He said: “They were trying to make a PG-13 movie, and you can only have one ‘f***’ or some s*** like that in it.
“And I told them, ‘Look, I gotta say motherf**** in this movie. There’s motherf****** snakes all over this plane.’ They’re like.
