How Jeremy’s Grandparents Helped Shape Early Marvel Movies

Marvel, like if you read the, the history of Marvel book or whatever, there's like this bit about my grandparents in there.

Because when we were making the first Marvel movies, I'd always be like, "I don't know if my grandma would like that," you know?

And that became like a guiding light of like as we were developing the movies, like I just had this like sense of like, "Well, I don't know if my grandma would like that."

And that became the stand-in for like, is this gonna work for like regular people that are outside of the bubble of Hollywood?

Like what does this say for like a regular family?

And I remember my grandmother called me when Iron Man 1 came out, and she said, "You know, our pastor on Sunday preached about the movie, and he doesn't even know that you worked on it."

Like, he just... Like the re- story of redemption like wove its way into his sermon, and like Iron Man was like the proxy for redemption that he like used as like, you know, trying to make yourself a better person.

And I was like, "Oh, man." Like all the time that Favreau would like joke and be like, "Oh, Jeremy's Memaw and Pepaw wouldn't like this," like it, it ended up the movie connected and like was for Memaw and Pepaw at the end of the day.

And that's not even what I call my grandparents.

That just became like the joke of like Jeremy's Memaw and Pepaw.

It's like, "No, it's, it's Granny and Pepa."

And, and everyone was just like, "Ah, your Memaw and Pepaw wouldn't like this.

We gotta take-- we gotta cut that joke or t- cut that joke or whatever 'cause Jeremy's Memaw and Pepaw wouldn't, wouldn't like it."

Um, and that was like kind of a, a guiding light for like how we made stuff in those early days of Marvel, was like wanted to connect and, and feel redemptive and feel hopeful and feel like it had something to say that was meaningful, you know?