After Avengers: Endgame, the Marvel world is holding out for a hero.
Fortunately, two are coming in the next MCU event series.
When asked about any on-set injuries that might have incurred, he said.
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But I’m sure we hurt each other."
On his left,Anthony Mackiechimed in.
This made the audience chuckle.
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Stan livened up, volleying back what Mackie served.
This is the first time I’m seeing you," he joked.
Mackie had inadvertently solved a small problem for the Disney publicists managing that tour.
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“They were worried that I didn’t talk a lot.
“They’re like, ‘Just put him in with Anthony, okay?
They’re going to talk.’
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And I was talking!”
“By the end, I was very lively, and it really is thanks to him.”
“I’m the ketchup to Sebastian’s French fries.”
Stan can’t help but smile.
“Way to put a button on it, and then some!”
“They’re so funny,” Feige says.
I want to watch them together more!'”
Again, he credits Mackie.
More specifically, it establishes what it looks like without Captain America.
It’s the thought “of exploring a decidedly Black, decidedly American hero in the current climate.”
Mackie doesn’t believe there is “a defacto Captain America figure” here.
At least, not in the beginning.
Spellman, who wrote 2010’sOur Family Weddingand episodes of Fox’sEmpire, rose to the top of the list.
The mandate, Spellman recalls of pitching the show, was “this cannot be TV.”
Skogland says, “Everybody went into this saying we’re making a six-hour feature.
The per-episode cost is very high.”
He continues, “You’re in this amazing franchise and everything works.
I don’t want to be the guy that destroys an entire Marvel franchise.”
He felt a bit more at ease when Feige caught up with him before the start of filming.
“I won’t let you suck,” he promised his star.
But it was watching the finished episodes and what Marvel did withWandaVisionthat boosted Mackie’s confidence.
They couldn’t tell what it was for, only that this troupe certainly recognized their costar Bruhl.
“He knows all of them!”
Stan laughs at Bruhl’s nickname for Mackie.
“He was like, ‘Where is Ex Machina?’
Oh my God, that was so funny.”
“I had the best time with these two,” Bruhl remembers of those days on set.
“We were really a very special triangle, I have to say.”
Meanwhile, in the context of the show itself, Bruhl finds himself more at odds with his costars.
Spellman and Skogland were greatly informed byCivil Warin shaping the arc ofThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
“Think about what Zemo’s been through and what motivates him,” Spellman adds.
Bruhl was in Budapest shooting season 2 ofThe Alienistin 2019 when he received an unexpected guest.
She flew all the way from Canada with a special suitcase.
Bruhl remembers sitting in his apartment, watching the director unzip this mystery package.
It was like a ceremony, full of tantalizing pomp and circumstance.
“That was a very special, exciting moment for me,” he says.
“We would see Zemo now finally in that iconic outfit.”
The mask alone changed Bruhl’s performance.
InCivil War, Zemo was pulling the strings off in the periphery.
“I felt like I’m a baron.”
While Bruhl can’t reveal too much about the villain’s next plot, there are some clues.
“Superheroes should not be allowed to exist,” Zemo declares in the trailers for the Marvel show.
Spellman promises that “is not a fleeting line.”
“That is why he has lost his whole family in the Sokovian war.
This is something that bothers Zemo and makes him think a lot.”
This organization, which fans may have already correctly guessed, seems to display similar super-soldier abilities.
“Erin’s going to be completely different than anyone’s expecting,” Spellman teases.
Skogland elaborates a bit further.
“You sometimes don’t even know you’re a villain until it hits you in the face.”
VanCamp agreesThe Falcon and the Winter Soldierfeels “relevant” in our current moment.
“Sharon really gets to…
I’ll use the term ‘grow up,'” he says, “not because of age.
Sharon emerges as a grown-up now because her life is being brought to bear through the character.”
For the first time, VanCamp had the opportunity to workshop Sharon’s fighting style.
agent," she says.
“We talked about it at length.
There were many different versions filmed and submitted.
For me, all that physical stuff is great fun.”
The buy returned the rights to popular Marvel characters like the X-Men and Fantastic Four to Marvel Studios proper.
This makes the sandbox in which the MCU now plays much bigger.
(March 10 is Bucky’s official birthday in the MCU.)
“That in itself felt very strange.
I felt like we were in the ending ofArgo.
‘Just pack and get home!'”
So, on March 11, they did.
But it all felt very scary and unknown."
Feige feels lucky that the pandemic didn’t end up completely altering the plan for Marvel’s Phase 4.
It’s fun that it’s been the reverse."
Skogland wasn’t alone in thinking lockdowns would last for a few weeks at most.
Then the reality set in that they would be out of commission for a few months.
“But we very quickly got back on our feet,” she says.
Filming resumed in Prague by September, and production officially wrapped that October.
Captain America’s shield felt, to Skogland, like a weighty metaphor.
As Sam himself says in the series: “The legacy of that shield is complicated.”
The legacy of America is equally messy.
Agent in the comics.
According to Marvel lore, he’s the government’s pick to succeed Steve as Captain America.
“He’s a complicated character.
That’s what drew me to him,” Russell says of the role.
“That character from the books, what he represents is extremely relevant,” Spellman remarks.
That’s my way of saying I can’t talk about Wyatt."
It’s more than a question of what does the symbol of Captain America mean in today’s world.
It’s about, more simply, what is a hero?
The answers to these questions will have drastic impacts on the MCU moving forward.
“You really get to see [Sam] as just a regular guy,” he says.
This goes back to that element of fun he once pointed out to Stan.
“What happens when the Winter Soldier can’t find his favorite cereal?”
Stan already worked it out.
Additional reporting by Devan Coggan.
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