“They’re both soldiers from different eras,” the John Walker actor explains to EW.
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Wyatt Russell in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’.Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios
“What I thought was interesting about John is that Steve was a soldier from a different era.
There’s a much different way of fighting now.
You go in guns blazing first and ask questions later.”
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I will finish the job for you,'" Russell says.
There are questions of, “Who am I in this suit?”
“What does it mean to me?
What does it mean to the people watching?”
“[Sam] didn’t necessarily feel comfortable with being Captain America.
He didn’t feel right.
Everybody deals with those things differently.
So, it’s a big difference between this guy [John] and Steve.
He’s a little bit more of a [jump in] head first bang out guy.”
“I’m an obstacle in that,” he says.
Russell didn’t read much of the original Marvel Comics in preparation for the role.
Part of that is because he was never a comic book guy growing up.
None of his friends read comics, either.
He was an athlete, a hockey player.
Though he found the comic artwork of John informative for the physical approach to the role.
“Your shoulders are a bit more rolled forward,” the actor notes.
“It’s just a little bit more bull.”
John, in the comics, follows his family’s footsteps by joining the army.
The character later becomes an official Captain America after Steve hangs up the shield for ethical reasons.
However, pieces of it, of course, carried over into the show.
In the series, Lemar is part of John’s Captain America strike force.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier also makes mention of the Power Brokers.
Russell didn’t watch any of the past Marvel movies until he landed the role, either.
When he finally did, he realized why Evans was so good as Captain America.
“It’s next to an impossible job as far as I’m concerned,” Russell says.
“You’re trying to be a character who’s perfect.
