MORBIUS Star Tyrese Shares Disappointment With Reduced Role And Confirms Major Fight Scenes Were Cut

MORBIUS Star Tyrese Shares Disappointment With Reduced Role And Confirms Major Fight Scenes Were Cut

Morbius star Tyrese has reflected on the Marvel movie, revealing whether he'd return for a sequel, how it felt to see most of his performance cut, and what Simon Stroud originally brought to the table...

By JoshWilding - Apr 29, 2024 03:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Morbius
Source: CBR

Morbius underwent major changes after shooting wrapped. Not only were all those Spider-Man references scrapped, but the entire final battle was reshot and Fast & Furious star Tyrese's role ended up being cut down to almost nothing. 

The actor, who played Simon Stroud, has a prosthetic arm which was never explained and, in an earlier cut, was meant to show off what it could do. 

Talking to CBR about his new movie Bloodline Killer, Tyrese reflected on his Marvel role - which he once believed had earned Martin Scorsese's approval in a now-infamous meme - and the disappointment which came with seeing his performance left on the cutting room floor. 

"I don't know, man, I'm waiting on the call," Tyrese said of a possible sequel. "I would be honored to dance with Daniel Espinosa and the crew again, [and] Jared Leto, yeah, I would love it. I would love if if that opportunity presented itself, yeah."

"I don't know. The arm was in the trailer, and I definitely had to put that thing on for at least two to three hours a day in the make-up trailer, so, I don't know," the actor said of his character's cut storyline. "It felt like it went from 'This is what we're going to do,' to some type of issues that they had in post-production. Something. I don't know."

"I definitely did a lot of scenes that was chopped out of the movie. I had a full-on fight, and brawl, with the villain, Matt Smith. I had a full-on fight scene with Matt Smith in London, where we filmed at a park, and it was crazy," he explained, referring to the original final battle. "And my arm was all over that scene, and they chopped that out of the movie, because I guess the presence of my arm, you wouldn't have been able to edit around that."

"I definitely asked some questions. It wasn't chopped because of the running time," Tyrese mused. "Normally, you'll lose a couple scenes because they're trying to figure out how to squeeze it within that hour-fifty, two-hour window. But, yeah, I was very disappointed that they chopped that scene...I definitely wish that that fight scene had made the movie. It was crazy."

You've got to feel for the Fast & Furious vet, particularly as the final cut of Morbius was eviscerated by critics (we don't know whether the previous version was any better, but it can't have been worse). 

His co-star, Al Madrigal, expressed similar sentiments to us back in 2022 when he said, "You saw a complete alternate ending to this entire thing...That scene you saw pictures from was shot during the day and the rationale was, ‘We have a vampire movie. We can’t have the big final fight scene happen during the day.’ At some point, me and Tyrese fought Matt Smith. I shot for six days and none of it was shown."

Jared Leto isn't expected to reprise the role of Morbius' in Sony's Spider-Verse, so none of the actors involved in this one are likely to get a second chance. 

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/29/2024, 3:07 PM
Tyrese Shares was basially the Jim Jordan to the mighty MORBIUS
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 4/29/2024, 3:08 PM
This movie....man...it sure was a movie...of some type. But a film in theaters it was.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/29/2024, 3:08 PM
Couldn't give two shits about Tyrese but did they really cut scenes of Milo?
JFerguson
JFerguson - 4/29/2024, 3:17 PM
No chance in hell Jared Leto Morbius or Dakota Johnson Madame Webb ever show up in another Sony produced movie
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/29/2024, 5:00 PM
@JFerguson - yeah, I doubt it. Still, I think it would be fun to see Morbius (and Venom & Kraven) be recruited by Morlun, while Madame Web gets Garfield's Spider-Man to fight them.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 4/29/2024, 5:10 PM
@bkmeijer1 - Morlun could be a great villain if done well. I don’t have the trust that Sony can pull him off unless it’s animation though.

If we get more spider verse movies he should 100% show up and I wouldn’t even mind if they bring back all who you mentioned in that case
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/30/2024, 2:26 AM
@JFerguson - Morlun would be great if done right indeed, but I don't really need another full-blown Spider-Verse. Rather see them keep it small with stuff just from Sony's Marvel movies
DocSpock
DocSpock - 4/29/2024, 3:18 PM

So he wished he had more screen time in one of the worst movies of the last several years??

Be careful what you wish for dumba$$.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/29/2024, 3:20 PM
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mountainman
mountainman - 4/29/2024, 3:25 PM
Wild to think, that between the Transformers movies and the Fast and Furious movies, that Tyrese has been in some of the highest performing movies of all time. Dude is lucky to have been i. what he has, because he certainly isn’t a good actor.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/29/2024, 3:29 PM
@mountainman - He paid Bay to be in Transformers.
SATW42
SATW42 - 4/29/2024, 3:53 PM
@mountainman - nah, he's fun as hell in the Fast movies. I know some people don't care for those things, but they are just big dumb fun from 5 on and he is definitely part of the reason they are big dumb fun.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/29/2024, 4:19 PM
@SATW42 - Neither franchise is my cup of tea, but I get that he’s a “fun” actor. I just don’t think he has much wiggle room to complain about his scenes being cut.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/29/2024, 5:02 PM
@SATW42 - he and Walker were great in 2F2F, and to a certain point his back-and-forth with Ludacris was fun too. Think he got turned into the comic relief too much though
Cleander
Cleander - 4/29/2024, 3:27 PM
"MORBIUS Star" lmao!
SuperCat
SuperCat - 4/29/2024, 3:36 PM
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Pathogen
Pathogen - 4/29/2024, 3:42 PM
Can we say goodbye to this terrible actor, superior whiner, already?
SATW42
SATW42 - 4/29/2024, 3:51 PM
Imagine being in Morbius, and wishing you were in MORE of it
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 4/29/2024, 4:02 PM
Feels like Tyreese is always whining or upset about something. I could understand if he was good in the role, but he was forgettable like the rest of the movie.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 4/29/2024, 4:31 PM
Lil Jody. Lil Jody
SuperCat
SuperCat - 4/29/2024, 4:34 PM
@DarthOmega - LOLOLOL.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 4/29/2024, 4:37 PM
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/29/2024, 4:42 PM
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dragon316
dragon316 - 4/29/2024, 5:02 PM
Ok vampire movie but boring less vampire more monster
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/29/2024, 5:04 PM
Kinda forgot he was in Sony's villainverse. Guess an extra fight scene could've made him more memorable, although I'm not sure that means much here
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/29/2024, 5:07 PM
I still haven't seen this movie.

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/29/2024, 5:44 PM
@marvel72 - You're missing out on a movie.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 4/29/2024, 6:46 PM
That's understandably frustrating
Deklipz
Deklipz - 4/29/2024, 7:43 PM
He’s just mad that he was in Morbious instead of Roland in Borderlands…
LSHF
LSHF - 4/29/2024, 9:22 PM
I probably would have enjoyed a fight seen more that watching Matt dance.

There were some interesting priorities of what scenes to cut and include.
SolarSoldier
SolarSoldier - 4/29/2024, 9:36 PM
If this movie didn't star Jared Leto and wasn't made by Sony, I think it would have done WAY better.

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