Jamie Lee Curtis Doubts Marvel Would Cast Her, Because She’s 64: “I Would Find it Hard to Imagine”

Jamie Lee Curtis has had quite the week between guest starring on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and the Halloween Ends trailer dropping. But the actress is making headlines elsewhere: according to her, she doubts Marvel will cast her in a movie — because of her age.

Back in May, Curtis ignited some multiverse drama between Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and her own movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once . In an Instagram post comparing the posters of the two films, she captioned it, “Is it JUST me? Does it seem STRANGE that our tiny movie that could and did and continues to do ##1movieinamerica and is TRULY MARVELOUS, out marvels any Marvel movie they put out there.”

Despite poking fun at the franchise, the Freaky Friday actress recently told People, “I have nothing against Marvel as an entity. I’ve seen a lot of Marvel movies. What I was talking about is that Everything Everywhere All at Once was a little movie that could … and [we] were able to tell a multiverse story that really touched people. What I was trying to talk about was it doesn’t have to be a Marvel movie in order to be a spectacle and to really move you.”

On whether or not she would ever star in a Marvel movie, Curtis said she can’t imagine they would ever come calling because she, “kicked up some dust.”

“But I’m a collaborating artist,” she went on to say. “I work with a lot of people on a lot of different things, and if the role was interesting and if I could bring what I do to it, of course I would [work with Marvel]. What am I going to do, say no? Of course!”

Curtis continued, “I would find it hard to imagine that Marvel’s going to figure out something to do with a 64-year-old woman.”

She also added that Marvel’s movie-making process may not be compatible with her own, saying she doesn’t want them to stick dots all over her and make her act by herself in a warehouse somewhere.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once was the absolutely most unexpected, delightful experience maybe of my career, just because the expectations were so low and I was so free in the work and just had a blast making it. And there was no green screen!” she said.

Here’s to hoping — Marvel or not — that we get plenty more Jamie Lee Curtis in our future!