Samuel L. Jackson’s MCU Salary Will Surprise You: How Much Money Did he Earn For Brie Larson’s The Marvels
Samuel L. Jackson started his acting career by appearing in plays. In the late 1980s, he was cast in small roles in Spike Lee’s movies School Daze and Do the Right Thing. His first starring role did not come until 1993 when he starred in the movie National Lampoon’s Loaded Gun 1. He gained international recognition for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.
Samuel L. Jackson appeared in numerous blockbuster movies after his breakthrough and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000. In 2002, he gave Marvel Comics the consent to design the character Nick Fury after his likeness. He made his first appearance as Fury in 2008’s Iron Man‘s post-credits scene. His recent Marvel movie The Marvels earned him a massive salary.
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Samuel L. Jackson Got a Huge Salary for The Marvels
Samuel L. Jackson is the second-highest-grossing actor of all time, thanks to his impressive portfolio of 150 films, which have collected over $27 billion in global box office earnings. The actor has a huge net worth of $250 million as of 2023; most of which comes from his MCU movies.
Jackson charges millions for roles nowadays. He has earned millions from every single movie he has starred in in the MCU. Even for small cameos in the franchise, he charges a large amount of money. According to Showbiz Galore, his role in The Marvels earned him $7 million which does not come as much of a surprise given that he charges $2 million to $3 million for cameos.
The MCU movies are not the only ones for which the Django Unchained actor takes millions. In 1992, he took $75,000 for his role in White Sands. For his roles in No Good Deed and Kong: Skull Island, he accepted $6 million and $5 million respectively. Not to mention that he charged $10 million as compensation for his role in the action-comedy movie Shaft.
Samuel L. Jackson Will Continue to Star as Nick Fury
Although Nick Fury is an integral part of the MCU and has appeared in more than a dozen Marvel projects by now, the audience has not been able to get a good read on the character. However, with more and more stars leaving after Avengers: Endgame, fans began wondering if Samuel L. Jackson too wanted to let go of his character.
Fortunately, that did not turn out to be the case for the A Time to Kill star who seems as eager as his fans, if not more, to explore the character of Nick Fury. In an interview with Empire, when he was asked about his plans for the character, he said:
“I love playing him, and I love the fact that they’re opening him up to all these other possibilities and this whole life that he has. So hopefully I’m not done, and in this new phase of the MCU I’ll still be floating in and out of there somehow, some way.”
In Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion, a completely new version of Nick Fury is seen as the character loses his signature eye patch, goatee, and leather jacket. It is a more vulnerable take on this character that had long been considered a superhuman.
