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Samuel L. Jackson is grateful that Marvel decided not to cast his role as spy Nick Fury as a “tacky one-eyed know-it-all who’ll kill you in a hot moment.”
“He’s vulnerable and kind of gets his way in this,” Jackson told Reuters of his eye-patch character in action series “Secret Invasion.”
The six-episode show premiered on Disney Plus Hotstar on Wednesday.
Follows Nick Fury as he and his allies fight to stop shape-shifting reptilian humanoids known as Skrulls from committing international terrorist attacks and eventually conquering Earth.
The cast includes Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, Nick Fury’s Skrull ally, Emilia Clarke as Jah, Talos’ daughter, and Olivia Colman as Agent Sonya Falsworth.
While the Ali Selim-directed series is based on other projects from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), it takes a different direction from previous Marvel shows.
“Superheroes can’t fix the problems we’re trying to solve. He’s a natural human being,” Emilia Clarke said. “There are people talking in rooms, you’re not used to that in the MCU. But they always try to mess with tradition. They’re always trying to create something really new.”
Not only does Fury, along with other members of the spy organization known as the Homeland Strategic Intervention, Implementation, and Logistics Division (SHIELD), have supernatural abilities they can count on to help win the day. “It happens in a very organic way, to know we’re inside something that has no supernatural solution,” said Samuel L. Jackson.
What happens, from the first episode, is a lot of suspense, said Emilia Clarke. “You won’t really know who is what and how and when, and there will still be a moment when they will get you and it will be shocking. That in itself is very exciting.”
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