That doesn’t mean audiences should just shut up and consume crappy movies, of course, but Sebastian Stan is also adamant that moviegoers should be thankful for the effect that Marvel has on cinema as a whole.

There has been an ongoing narrative that the success of the MCU has pushed smaller and smaller movies out of the mainstream, leading studios to bank on one big-budget blockbuster after another in an attempt to keep up. 

However, the actor believes there is more of a trickle-down effect we should be aware of. “This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that’s Hollywood,” he said, one that “feeds in so many more ways than people acknowledge.” It’s impossible to prove this, of course, but that belief goes a long way toward explaining why Sebastian is such an (ahem) “Stan” for Marvel.