With great power must also come great love for the fans.
We were so used to seeing Stan Lee being bombastic and larger than life, but in this quiet moment between takes on an interview he is just so real!
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The Marvel mastermind shares his love for the fans in a completely genuine moment of reflection, saying:
“I cannot tell you how much I love my fans. Sometimes at night I’m sitting here and I’m thinking, ‘Eh, what’s it all about?’ And then I get a letter from a fan or I read something or I see something or I remember something and I realize it’s so lucky to have fans, fans who really care about you. And that’s the reason I care so much about the fans because they just make me feel so great.
There’s something, if you think about it, that is wonderful about somebody caring about you — as I care about them — whom you’ve never met, who may live in another part of the world, but they care and you have something in common and occasionally you contact each other. This business of fans I think is terrific, and I love ’em all.”
Grab some tissues and watch the sincerity flow (below):
So many wonderful moments with Stan came spontaneously. As we were setting up the camera one day, he casually started talking about his fans. We know how much Stan meant to you, and we thought it would be nice for you to hear how much your support meant to him. pic.twitter.com/WTX8U1afLm
— Stan Lee (@TheRealStanLee) November 14, 2018
[Image via Stan Lee/Twitter.]