In a
recent interview to USA Today, actor Samuel L. Jackson, aka Nick Fury talks
about his character in the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Robert
Redford’s character Alexander Pierce, his relationship with both Cap and
Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson and being a Charlie (Cherlie's Angels) type figure in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Regarding
Nick Fury, Jackson has to say:
“You
see Nick Fury the office guy, him going about the day-to-day work of
S.H.I.E.L.D. and the politics as opposed to that other stuff. It's great to
have him dealing with Captain America in terms of being able to speak to him
soldier to soldier and try to explain to him how the world has changed in
another way while he was frozen in time. Some of the people who used to be our
enemies are now our allies — him trying to figure out, "Well, how do we
trust those guys?" or "How do we trust the guys that you didn't trust
who don't trust you? And explaining to him that the black and white of good
guys/bad guys has now turned into this gray area.
Nick
lies to him all the time, too. (Laughs) But he's trying to help him navigate
the waters of the new sharks that he doesn't know anything about.”
About
Robert Redford, aka Alexander Pierce, his superior officer:
“Yeah,
he's part of that World Security Council I was talking to in (The Avengers),
just he wasn't there. We also know each other because we've been comrades for a
very long time.
There's
some stuff that's said that gives you an idea of how he's been part of that
environment for a long time and the kind of guy he was.”
“There's
always stuff to deal with when I'm being Nick. Everything has another meaning
with Nick. Finding the truth of what he's saying in that particular moment is
the important thing. Ultimately there's a lie in there somewhere. Sometimes
it's a lie he's been told that he hasn't discovered, so I have to deal with
that all the time.
There's
also the nature of his relationship with different people. Like when he talks
to Cap, he can talk to Cap in several different ways. He can talk to him as an
equal in terms of they were both soldiers from a specific era, and you
understand his kind of morality. He can also talk to him as a guy who's part of
a world he doesn't know anything about, and he's a mentor now to help him do
something. And then I speak to him sometimes as a boss. There's all those
things I have to blend in to make sure he doesn't get rankled or ruffled in a
certain kind of way and make sure he understands.
And
when I talk to Natasha, it's as a father figure because he loves her in a way
that he doesn't love anybody else as part of that whole group of people. The
fact that they're both members of this shadow world and he knows her past in a
way that no one else knows it, there's an affection and a respect there and a
knowledge of that kind of person she is in there. Even if she loves him, if she
had to kill him, she would, and he understands that. There's a way of dealing
with her that he can't deal with anybody else.
There
are all kinds of things that happen. When I'm dealing with the world council,
I've got a whole other attitude. And when I look in the mirror, I have to deal
with what kind of patriot am I? There's Nick dealing with Nick, and how many
lies have I told? Have I told so many lies that I don't really know what's the
truth anymore?”
And
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
“I
keep talking to them about it. I keep saying, “If nothing else, let me be
Charlie of Charlie’s Angels. Use my voice to send them off to do stuff
sometimes.” Joss just looked at me like, “Hmmm. Maybe.””
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