“I have a mortgage to pay!” This is the only reason why this great actor has been cast in this Marvel movie

You can be a great actor and still be bound to make cheap artistic pretensions from time to time because the pot has to boil. Take Jared Harris for example. excellent as King George VI in The Crown; in the extraordinary mini-series Chernobyl, where he played scientist Valery Legasov; Also great in the Mad Men series, Benjamin Button’s The Curious Case of David Fincher’s…

And then there’s Morbius, out in 2022. In this Marvel adaptation, he plays Emil Nikos, a friend and scientific mentor to Dr. Michael Morbius, who falls victim to his ill-fated companion’s mutation.

“I have a mortgage to pay, you know. Sometimes you accept an offer just because you need the money.” The actor commented, On the microphone of the British site iWhen a journalist asks him why he took the role in this movie, which was more than appreciated by critics, besides it was a big failure at the box office and collected only 167 million dollars. This suggests that the vampire Morbius’ teeth are wearing quite a bit…

Released on a massive 4,268 screens in the United States, it was shown in only 83 theaters after eight weeks. In a rather odd move on Sony’s part, the film was re-released ten weeks after its initial release, from 83 theaters to 1,017. The flop was so massive that Sony shelved the film after a week…

Why was the film such a failure? Harris has an idea of ​​his own: “I’ve found that movies like this work well if you have a sense of humor. You can’t treat it like Shakespeare. So, yes, this movie could have taken a more wicked sense of humor.