Nia DaCosta: Getting Captain Marvel 2 Didn’t Erase My Student Loans

Just a few months after Nia DaCosta formally signed on to direct the brand new Candyman—which has gone on to grow to be the primary film directed by a Black girl to premiere on the prime of the field workplace—the director occurred to stumble upon New York Times columnist and illustrator Julia Rothman, who was randomly interviewing folks on the road about their relationships to debt.

While these not acquainted with DaCosta’s earlier work like Little Woods won’t have acknowledged her identify on the time, what she stated about her $100,000 pupil mortgage debt resonated with many who may relate to dwelling with the fixed stress of getting to pay again that a lot cash (plus curiosity). In order to rid herself of that sort of stress, DaCosta reasoned in 2019, she’d have to land a large, Avengers-level directing gig, which might enable her to “pay it all in one fell swoop.”

Then, in 2020, information broke that DaCosta was set to direct Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel sequel, The Marvels.

Like any high-profile superstar with good sense who abruptly discovered themselves thrust into the general public highlight in a serious means, DaCosta quietly left social media not lengthy after The Marvels information started making the rounds, and far of the thrill about her since her been centered on Candyman’s field workplace success. But throughout a current look on Audioboom’s Blank Check podcast DaCosta spoke a bit about how reserving The Marvels modified her life, and she or he defined how, hyped as she is to be engaged on the film, the challenge didn’t magically erase the sort of monetary burden she was speaking about within the Times.

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“I was like, I will only pay them off if I get a Marvel movie, and now that I have one, I’m like ‘Jesus, I’m still not going to [be able to] pay them all off,’” DaCosta stated. “Everyone thinks I literally paid them off like when I got the job, which is not how you get paid through the [Directors Guild of America].”

DaCosta’s feedback come at a time when extra members of the movie trade—actors specifically—are talking up about how a lot they’re being paid or underpaid as half of a bigger dialog about pay fairness throughout the trade. Every director and actor’s state of affairs with studios is exclusive, however prior to now Marvel has been widely reported to stick to a tiered construction the place the dimensions of staff’ checks are decided by a wide range of elements, like their star energy and centrality to their respective franchises. Actors’ and administrators’ pay on the again finish has been tied to the monetary success of their tasks, which means that the more cash a film like The Marvels makes on the field workplace, the extra DaCosta and stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani will find yourself being paid after the movie’s launch.

To that finish, DaCosta additionally expressed how prepared she was (this episode of Blank Check was recorded a while in the past) to lastly dive into The Marvels’ manufacturing. “Honestly, I’ve been prepping for 10 months, and we just need to start shooting,” DaCosta stated. “There’s only so much you can prep a movie, even one as big as this, and I’m just like ‘let’s go. Let’s do it.’”

Candyman is in theaters now, and The Marvels hits theaters on November 11, 2022.

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