Speaking to Inverse, French actor Vincent Cassel (“La Haine,” “Black Swan,” and “Mesrine”), who recently completed Season 3 of “Westworld,” admits having turned down superhero movie roles in the past and why he’ll likely continue to do so in the future":
“Honestly, these are not movie movies I watch anymore,” he explained. “When they came up with the technology and the fact that suddenly Iron Man or Spider-Man could look real and not tacky in the special effects, I was interested. Then, it became normal.”
He continued, “I was a big fan of the comics at the time when I was a kid. Nowadays, I think these are movies for kids, really. And even though I still have a part of me who’s a kid, I would say no. I wouldn’t watch it.”
Something tells me that Marvel has just put Cassel on heir blacklist.
I do agree, for the most part, with Cassel. At first, Superhero movies felt vitally fresh, no thanks to the excellent CGI and top-notch storytelling, I can think of a few examples such as “Iron Man,” “Spider-Man 2,” “The Dark Knight,” but the genre just got greedier and greedier, to the point where I just see them now as marketing products rather than any kind of art.