“There’s an odd-couple kind of back-and-forth there,” Stan explains.

“Like, ‘I don’t really like you, but I might need you.'”

“How does that guy function in 2021, in the times of today?”

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Illustration by Joshua Swaby for EW

“And there’s comedic parts: How does he deal with technology?

Is this guy ordering Postmates at home?”

agent, Sharon Carter, will also return.

New to the cast isWyatt Russellas the militaristic John Walker, a.k.a.

Agent who, in the comics, is a government-approved replacement for Captain America.

“We didn’t lose that feeling of security and espionage,” Mackie says.

A version of this story appears in the March issue ofEntertainment Weekly,on newsstands Feb. 19 andavailable here.