I love good versus evil. It always works. Even when you look at superhero movies, the action is really cool and all that, but what sucks you in is good trying to overcome evil.
So, it’s cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
I did want to play a superhero. I mean, who doesn’t when you’re a kid? I would have loved to be a superhero. But as I’d gotten older, I wasn’t ready to jump into tights and put the cape on. I was hoping to play something a little more grounded and realistic.
When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.
I confess I didn’t read the ‘Green Arrow’ comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.
It’s easy to get caught up in a moment and think, ‘Oh, I’ve been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.’ And it’s easy to get caught up in a moment because it’s flattering. But you can’t do a movie because it’s flattering.
As silly as it sounds, I want to do some sort of superhero type of role. That’s always been something I’m interested in.
I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.
‘Deadpool’ is a quirky universe, which is all about being outside of the box, unlike a normal superhero film.
Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I’ve ever seen… to a superhero. He’s amazing. He’s inspirational.
Power in superhero stories and in magic, when people use it, it drains them. It makes them more tired or it drains them. I wanted power to feed the people that used it. I wanted it to make the people who used it stronger, more powerful, and beautiful. That was one of the tents of being a Grisha.
For something to be profitable doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best thing in the world for the director. You judge a movie by different standards – I’ve worked on comedies, and now I’ve worked on superhero movies, and the reviews are almost parenthetical in both of those genres.
I haven’t done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don’t mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!
I said no to a lot of superhero stuff. I never expected to say yes to that kind of stuff.
‘Superman’ had nothing to do with the superhero or physical power. It’s a reference to the book ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra,’ by Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote about the evolution of consciousness to reach a higher superman state.
It’s quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.
People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It’s like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.
Wrestling has progressed to the point that the fourth wall has been broken. People would enjoy more seeing what is behind the superhero that they watch on TV.
I thought, ‘Oh, this is great,’ because maybe someone who does look like me will watch ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you’re a robot, and I’m not.
At first, I had this huge desire to play a superhero, that little kid in me. Then I realized it wasn’t actually a superhero I wanted to play: it was someone fighting for a cause that’s bigger than themselves, which can go into all sorts of things.
Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.
If I can make a dance-based movie like ‘ABCD’, then I was sure I could make a superhero movie, too.
One of the reasons why Spider-Man is my favorite superhero is because we both undergo big changes in our lives.
After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
In most superhero shows, the superhero is pretty young. He’s in his 20s; he’s single. ‘Black Lightning’ is a man who’s middle-aged, going through a divorce, and has two daughters.
I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.
The difference between ‘Watchmen’ and a normal comic book is this: With ‘Batman’s Gotham City,’ you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; ‘Watchmen’ comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
When you’re playing a superhero, you’re almost playing two different people. I separate when I’m playing Jefferson Pierce and the days when I’m playing Black Lightning.
I did not know much about ‘Black Lightning’ beforehand, but I always wanted to play a superhero. After getting the part, I went back and read the comic books.
I want to be in a Marvel movie. I want to be a superhero.
I think people want to feel that it is possible to overcome differences to work together in times of stress. Maybe that’s why so many people are looking for an alternative to the standard superhero movie or TV show. They are looking for characters with more dimension.
It’s rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.
I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
There’s the chiselled superhero that we’re used to seeing and we’ve all grown up with. But Doctor Who has never been that, which is wonderful. It’s attainable in so many ways.
Every son needs his father to be a hero and my father is like a superhero!
I started with superhero stuff – ‘X-Men’ and ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Batman’ and ‘Hellboy’ – but I wasn’t familiar with ‘The Strain’ until I started the show.
I don’t have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don’t connect to the fantastic, and I’m not a comic person – it’s just not my thing, so I’m not looking in that direction – but ambitious films on a big scale I’m very interested in looking at.
One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn’t necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.
A lot of black actors will sit there and go, ‘Every role is about being a gangster’ – then they get an opportunity to write a script and they write about a gangster. You know… write about a superhero.
It’s so fantastic for young kids to see a superhero going through the things they go through.
I wanted to make an unusual superhero film for quite some time.
As we all know, Aquaman is somewhat the butt of the joke in the superhero world.
Schwarzenegger is big, he’s noisy, he’s larger than life, and he’s earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America’s Green superhero.
I would love ‘Patsy’ to join the ranks of superhero comics that have something for everybody and are new-reader-friendly, with an adventure every issue.
Once the stories end up getting farfetched and ridiculous, I think that’s where superhero fatigue will really catch on.
Every son’s first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.
I’d love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman; I think she’s amazing.
Sometimes we just sit around and sit on our hands and don’t do anything because it’s like, ‘Hey, that’s not my problem.’ You can’t do that when you’re a superhero.
I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do – whether you’re a teacher, whether you are a doctor, a single mother, a college student, a big sister – that you have strength within you, and I want people to be inspired to walk in their own superhero regardless of what it is that they do.
I hope in my lifetime we will get to see an Indian superhero for sure.
I think most superhero stories have already been done a million times.
I’m excited that ‘The Good Guy’ is getting distribution because indie movies they’re not – people ran out of money and they’re not making these movies anymore. It’s all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.
‘Iron Man’ was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character – that’s what it was.
I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.
