John Malkovich rejected ‘grueling’ MCU offers: ‘Pay me’

John Malkovich is soon to make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. But it was not his first superhero offer.

The Oscar-nominated actor, 71, could not say much about his mysterious role in the coming Fantastic Four: First Steps in one interview with GQ Published on Tuesday, February 18, but he confirmed that he declined other Marvel roles that were previously on the table.

“The reason I didn’t have them had nothing to do with any artistic considerations,” he said. “I didn’t like the business they did at all.”

Noting that Marvel and such comic books are “quite incredible to do”, Malkovich, “if you are going to hang from a crane in front of a green screen for six months, pay me. You don’t want to pay me, it’s cool, but then want I don’t do it, because I would rather be on stage or direct a game or do something else. ”

Malkovich stars opposite Available AYO In the author-director Mark Anthony Green’s A24-Thriller Opus (In the theaters on March 14), which plays a recurring celebrity pop star who seems to be the leader of a strange cult. In the recently restarted Fantastic FourThe actor’s role is unknown; He was discovered in a Teaser trailer With a mop of curly gray hair and beard.

His first Marvel role, it turns out, felt “not so different to do theater,” the stage veteran told GQ. “You imagine a bunch of things that are not there and make your little game.”

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Elsewhere in his interview, Malkovich said he moved to a suburb outside Boston, Massachusetts to be close to his young grandchildren. By his long -standing partner Nicoletta Peyran, with whom he shares two children, he said that the marriage was “never a goal for her, never really a goal for me.”

Among Malkovich’s other upcoming films are animated A winter trip; Sacrifice Costs Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans and Salma Hayek; and Sergiu Celibidache Biopic The yellow tie.

Opus Is in the theater March 14. Fantastic Four: First Steps Is in theaters July 25.