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“It takes an actor to be those particular characters,” Jackson said. “And the sign of movie stardom has always been, what, asses in seats? What are we talking about?”

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“So, it’s not a big controversy for me to know that, well, apparently, these actors are movie stars,” he added. “Chadwick Boseman is Black Panther. You can’t refute that. And he’s a movie star.”

As The Piano Lesson star stated, if the sign of a real movie star is getting people in the door, then the actors of the MCU have accomplished that. The franchise has a domestic box office gross of $11 billion.

Quentin Tarantino is welcome to his opinion, but maybe he—and other so-called high-brow directors—can just relax and let fans like what they like without shitting all over it.