Stan Lee reveals his favourite and least favourite Marvel movie cameos [VIDEOS]
If there’s one thing that fans anticipate in Marvel movies, it’s Stan Lee’s cameo. No Marvel movie is complete without a few seconds of the Marvel Comics honcho’s appearance. Not all cameos are credited equal, though, and Lee has named his favourite and least favourite cameos ever.
Comicbook.com reports what the comic book icon thought his best film cameo was. “I loved the one that I did, I think it was in ‘The Avengers’ (he meant ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’), when I want to have a drink that Thor is drinking,” he was quoted by the site as saying at the Silicon Valley Comic Con last week.
“It’ll be too strong for me, I think. And I drink it, and it the next scene, they’re carrying me out.”
Here’s the scene he was talking about:
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In 2008, however, Lee claimed at the Talks of Google event that his favourite appearance was in “Iron Man.” When asked what his favourite cameo was, he answered, “I think when I was mistaken for Hugh Hefner,” he told his listeners. “I didn’t tell you about that. The director gave me a line to say, for those of you who have seen it, and then the same director who fed me the line, he took it out and cut it out, and nobody heard it.”
Lee was probably referring to Jon Favreau, who helmed the 2008 superhero film starring Robert Downey Jr. He added that his line was supposed to say, “That’s okay. I get that all the time.”
Hear Lee talk about the scene at about 22:10
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Come 2016, he has changed his mind, and not just once, but twice. Two months ago, he said at a fan Q&A that his favourite appearance was in “Deadpool,” in which he introduced strippers at a club.
“More nakedness!” the 93-year-old said when asked what he wanted to see more of, adding he would like to have a “bigger cameo.”
As for his least favourite, he had a ready answer for that, though he was only joking. He said his least favourite cameo was in “Spider-Man” in 2002 (starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi).
“Everybody is looking up going ‘ooh,’ and I’m one of the guys looking up going ‘ooh’ …for one second,” he told the audience at the Silicon Valley Comic Con (via Comicbook.com). And I resented that because it didn’t give me a chance to show the full power of my acting,” he quipped. “I had a long talk with the director after that. He apologised, of course. I think in the next one [‘Spider-Man 2’ (2004)], I was looking at another accident and they gave me another second to go ‘ooh’ like that.”
In case it wasn’t clear, Lee was only kidding about it. “Seriously, I don’t have any non-favourite cameos. It’s just such fun to be there.”
And the fans love seeing him in the movies, even just for a second or two.
Lee’s first cameo in a Marvel superhero flick was in the 2000 film “X-Men,” wherein he appeared as a hotdog stand vendor on a beach. After that, he has had cameos in all Marvel films, even in the animated film “Big Hero 6” in 2004.
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