Jeremy Allen White is on an impressive streak. After his 11-season run on\u00a0Shameless came to an end, White went on to become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after performers. He starred alongside Zac Efron in The Iron Claw, found mainstream fame in FX’s The Bear, and most recently led\u00a0the Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. On top of that, he\u00a0has a starring role in Disney’s first\u00a0Star Wars movie in six\u00a0years, The Mandalorian and Grogu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An actor with that kind of career momentum is usually on the radar of companies like Marvel Studios and\u2014more recently\u2014DC Studios, and Jeremy Allen White soon found himself on said radar.\u00a0In 2023, the actor revealed<\/strong><\/a> he had had a meeting for a “Marvel-y movie,” which, as he detailed, went badly, but didn’t specify the studio he had met with. Now,\u00a0The Bear star has opened up more about that event.<\/p>\n In an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused<\/a><\/strong> podcast, host Josh Horowitz (who confirmed in the title of the clipped video<\/a><\/strong> the meeting had been with Marvel) brought up White’s aforementioned comments. The actor offered more details about his mindset going into the meeting, and expressed regret over the way he handled it:\u00a0<\/p>\n “That was out of line. That was, again, me\u00a0sort of not being entirely invited to the party, and being, like, ‘I don’t even wanna go anyway.’ But yes, I had a meeting that I probably could have handled differently,\u00a0for sure. And I think I was just… First of all, it’s not\u00a0a bag on the genre, as much as it is, like,\u00a0I don’t know what I can give to it, really, or how I fit into it. And also, I think there was a period where being in one of those films guaranteed\u00a0you [could] get any movie made. And if you find a script on the street and you take that around to people, and you love it, you can get it made, and I just don’t know if that’s how it’s working anymore.”<\/strong><\/p>\n