Mahershala Ali has some regrets over ‘Blade’ after blunt criticism of Marvel

That was my first meeting," he recalled."We'll be at Comic-Con by 2019, in the summer.

I didn't want to make no announcements," Ali stated.He shared, "I don't believe in the announcements.

Just do the work, and then it's like, Okay, you announce the work is done, right?""But all this anticipatory stuff is not – I'm not a fan of that at all," the Oscar-winner added.Ali continued, "But they want to do all that.

We did all that and had a story greenlit, and then we don't have any deliverables.""And I can't deliver until they deliver, right?" he said, adding, "So, that's not a secret.

Otherwise, we'd have a movie."However, what frustrated Ali was that he couldn't work on other projects because his dates were locked in for Blade."And then I'm saying no to things in that time because they own my schedule, basically," he shared.But Ali's training didn't go to waste, as he put it to good use in his new movie, Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.

Mahershala Ali has some regrets over 'Blade' after blunt criticism of Marvel September 23, 2026.