Jarred Harris is sharing an honest perspective on his Marvel debut. The Golden Globe nominee explained that he keeps a “sense of humour” about his role in Sony‘s Morbius (2022), chalking up his appearance in the maligned Spider-Verse spin-off to a paycheck during a recent interview. “I have got a mortgage to pay, you know,” he told British outlet i News. “Sometimes you say yes to things because you need to make money.” Harris explained, “I have observed that those types of films do well if you have a sense of humour.
You can’t treat it as though it’s Shakespeare. So yeah, that movie could have done with a more mischievous sense of humour.” The actor appeared in Morbius as Dr.
Emil Nicholas, a mentor and father figure to Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto), who runs a facility for people with incurable illnesses.
Based on the Marvel comic book character, Morbius stars Leto as the titular biochemist who attempts to cure himself of a rare blood disease but accidentally infects himself with a form of vampirism.
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