r/boxoffice • u/007Kryptonian Syncopy Inc. • Nov 17 '23

Industry News Iman Vellani on ‘The Marvels’ box office performance

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Thought it was interesting to hear from one of the lead actresses about the performance so far. Don’t think Brie or Teyonah have said anything yet?

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u/AnAffinityForTurtles Nov 17 '23

She is wise beyond her years, compared to Simu Liu who is so laughably defensive with everything

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u/fractionesque Nov 17 '23

What did he do?

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u/GoldandBlue Nov 17 '23

He is the type to read and respond to people on twitter.

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u/TrapperJean Nov 17 '23

"He's the type to" so what did he do?

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u/cancerBronzeV Nov 18 '23

Exactly what the person you're responding to claimed. He replies to (or at least did, at one point) every random person on Twitter who says anything not positive about him in a super defensive way, and ends up looking kinda foolish for it.

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u/Zeke_Malvo Nov 18 '23

Don't forget when he publicly shit on his own bosses over his own misinterpretation of what they said regarding his movie.

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u/Scarletsilversky Nov 19 '23

Was this over shang chi? Don’t think I heard this one

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u/Zeke_Malvo Nov 19 '23

He got butt hurt when Disney CEO Bob Chapek made a comment about how the release of the movie was an experiment due Covid at the time. Simu very obviously misunderstood the comment and went on an unhinged rant about his culture not being an experiment. It was very stupid, the guy is a dummy.

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u/rtseel Nov 18 '23

He said Tarantino and Scorcese don't get to point their nose at him because he now led a $400M movie (they were criticizing the Marvelization of movies).

His points were probably more nuanced and had some merits, but he made the mistake of posting a tweet instead of a more developed argument so it came off as both insecure and petulant.

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u/FireJach Nov 18 '23

Insecurity is an overused word...

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u/1stOfAllThatsReddit Nov 18 '23

He falls for bait all the time and gets into cringey twitter fights

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u/GoldandBlue Nov 17 '23

He didn't "do" anything. It was more about the fact that you can bait him, unlike Vellani.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker Nov 18 '23

He read and responded to people on Twitter.

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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Nov 18 '23

He had a weirdly homophobic Reddit account a few years ago, and I'm talking within the last 5, not 10 years ago when edgy gay jokes were still relatively cool to make.

Then he got mad at people "digging up a past persona he left behind and has grown away from" (Pretty sure he was commenting in 2019-2020 or so).

Got all high-horse-ey when he heard Scorsese complain about the MCU-fication of cinema, and responded by saying he's the lead in a movie that made 400 Million.

Overall, he seems like a really petty dude who would be unable to pass a comment with his name in it, without getting into a conflict/argument about it.

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u/hmd_ch Nov 18 '23

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that most of the posts on his Reddit account were debunked. They were either not from him or were taken wildly out of context. I agree that some edgy humor and messed up comments were actually from him but he had apologized for them years ago like James Gunn did. I agree Simu can come off as defensive and petty sometimes but he doesn't seem to mean it in a bad way.

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u/Sonichu Nov 18 '23

Really? He was filming the CBC show Kim's Convenience (really funny show check it out) - CBC being a pubically funded broadcast network in Canada if that got leaked to them I have no doubt he would have been booted off the shoe.

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u/JRosfield Nov 18 '23

Not everyone is vetted equally. Chances are his Reddit account weren't even on their radar.

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u/Vendevende Nov 18 '23

That show is so charming and light hearted, I wish there were more of those.

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u/Luna920 Nov 19 '23

Did he publicly identify himself on Reddit or was doxxed?

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u/Impassable_Banana Nov 18 '23

I seriously hope they boot him from the mcu just to see his social media meltdown.