Jeremy Allen White’s been crushing it on TV for a long time, first for his run at Lip Gallagher for the entirety of Shameless’ run, and these days for his Emmy-winning role as Carmy Berzatto in the Hulu subscription-exclusive series The Bear. But White has also been building up a solid presence in the film space too, and there are Marvel Cinematic Universe fans who have fancast him as Wolverine. Well, White did have a meeting with Marvel at one point, and he recently discussed how that went.
The actor’s been making the press rounds for his 2025 movie release Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, where he plays “The Boss” himself, Bruce Springsteen, and Happy Sad Confused was one of his stops. Host Josh Horowitz brought up comments White made in 2023 to GQ about how he’d met studio executives for a “kind of Marvel-y movie,” but when he asked these execs why he should do their movie, “they didn’t respond well to that.” Here’s how White looks back on that meeting now:
