Jared Harris on what went wrong with Morbius and taking role because he "has a mortgage to pay"
"You can’t treat it as though it’s Shakespeare."
It's been two years since the release of Sony's critically panned Spider-Man spin-off universe film Morbius, and now one of its stars, Jared Harris, has explained what he thinks went wrong with the film.
Speaking with i News, Harris first revealed why he took his role in the film, explaining: "I have got a mortgage to pay, you know. Sometimes you say yes to things because you need to make money."
Harris then went on to speak about why he thinks the movie didn't do well critically or commercially, saying: "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."
Sony's Spider-Man universe has continued beyond Morbius, with Madame Web releasing earlier this year, and a third Venom movie, subtitled The Last Dance, coming later this year.
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That will be followed up by Kraven the Hunter, also releasing this year, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular Spider-Man villain.
Harris recently spoke with RadioTimes.com about his new film Reawakening, in which he plays a character whose teenage daughter vanished 10 years ago, before a woman then turns up out of the blue claiming to be her. He then begins to believe that some sort of deception is going on.
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Harris said of the film: "On the surface level, it's a kind of suspense film or thriller. But on a sort of deeper level, the interesting thing that you're looking at is the way that the parents are handling the situation. What it is that they choose to believe?
"The mother chooses to believe in an emotional reality, and the father – he's very typical of the male mind. He wants to know the facts, he wants the details, he wants... he arrives at the truth through facts, and she arrives at a truth through feeling."
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