Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, may have produced some of the world’s most widely successful movies.
But he revealed he still feels like he’s failing at work some days – especially when a huge star turns down a part in one of his films.
The man behind movies like Ant-Man and Avengers: Endgame admitted: ‘It happened the other day, with an actor.
‘There’s an actor we want for something, they come in, you give a big pitch and you can sort of tell they’re not into it. [You think] “I guess I’m a failure, I’ll show them, we’ll cast somebody even better.”’
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Kevin also has some sound advice for anyone dealing with rejection. Put simply: ‘Don’t stew in it.’
Speaking at a Q&A at New York Film Academy, Kevin explained: ‘It’s just part of it and don’t linger on them, is what I usually try to do, don’t think too much about it, don’t stew in it, move on quickly.’
Wise words!
Speaking about his earlier years in the movie industry, Kevin also said: ‘I learned that just by sort of ingratiating yourself with the filmmakers and having them realise I was just excited to be there, I was just excited to be near a movie and near a group of people making a movie, so I got to learn what to do, what not to do.
‘So, by the time we became our own studio and got our own financing to make Iron Man, we got to use everything I learned, good and bad, to try to focus our own vision on what we wanted.’
And the rest is history!
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