Samuel L Jackson has shared his surprise at the number of movies he was offered when he first signed a contract with Marvel , fearing that he might not live long enough to see out the deal. The 75-year-old actor, who has recently been seen advertising Warburton’s bread , has played the director of SHIELD, Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008, debuting in a credits scene in Iron Man. Since then Jackson has appeared in 10 Marvel movies in total, one more than he was originally contracted for, with the most recent being The Marvels in 2023.
On top of that, he’s also done three television series ( Agents of SHIELD, Secret Invasion and What If...
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“I knew I had a nine-picture deal,” Jackson recently told GQ but admitted that he privately thought: “How long I gotta stay alive to make nine movies?“ However, when he saw how quickly Marvel managed to produce the movies, he realised that his contract would be completed sooner rather than later. He added: “It’s not the quickest process in the world [movie making], people don’t do it. I didn’t know they were going to make nine movies in like two and a half years.
It’s kinda crazy, like, Oh sh--, I’m using up my contracts! But it worked out.” At the time of writing, Jackson is not s.
