Stan Lee’s passing left a deep void in the hearts of comic fans across the globe. He was an icon, a trendsetter, and a visionary. He is the man who co-created the X-Men, Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and Spider-Man.
In an emotional farewell, Marvel Studios chief, Kevin Feige comments on Lee’s passing.
In an emotional farewell letter, Feige talks about the last time that he spoke to Stan Lee, originally posted by Entertainment Weekly:
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“Some of his lessons are unspoken. He didn’t come to set and read the scripts and review the cuts. Stan came in, did a cameo that excited everybody, and would let his work speak for itself.
He was very nice in my interactions with him, including what ended up being my final conversation with him about two weeks before he died.
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I went to his house to see him, and he reminisced about the cameos. We were talking about what was coming up, always looking to the future.
Did he know that his time was running out? I don’t know. In hindsight, he was slightly more wistful than I’d seen him before. He talked about the past more than I had ever heard him talk about the past.
So maybe on some level, he knew. When I sat down by his chair in our last meeting, the very first thing he said was: “I know you want me to star in the next movie, but I have to just stick to the cameos. You’ll have to leave the starring roles to the other actors.
I’m sorry.
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He would show up to the movie sets game for anything. But one thing he would always do is try to add more lines. He always would joke – but not really joke – about wanting more lines, although he understood why we couldn’t.
God forbid he would start to overshadow the hero. That was something a character like Stan Lee could easily do.”
You can check out Feige’s full letter here. Rumors surfaced some time ago that Lee shot a number of cameos for future Marvel films. Whether this is true or not, he will have at least one more cameo in Avengers 4 or Spider-Man: Far From Home.
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