Captain America’s shield is in new hands.
“It’s very cumbersome!”
“It’s very heavy.
Wyatt Russell in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’.Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios
It’s just something that you have to get used to.
I’m not a shield connoisseur.
I don’t know anything about shields other than that one.”
For Russell, known for his roles inLodge 49, Everybody Wants Some!
The character’s gone by various names in the comics, including Captain America and U.S.
Agent, and Russell and the stunt team used that art to help develop John’s onscreen body language.
“It’s like, what is he trained to be as Captain America?
Is it a copy of Steve?”
“It’s a little of like he’s trying to be somebody he’s not.”
Although both men are veterans with extensive military experience, Steve never carried a weapon other than his shield.
John, on the other hand, goes into battle with a pistol at his side.
“He’s a modern-day military man,” Russell says.
“He wears a gun on his hip; that’s what they do.
In the comics, that’s part of his costume.
That’s what his job was as a Marine.
InThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier,there’s no love lost between John, Sam, and Bucky.
“It’s all in the writing for me,” Russell says of their onscreen rivalry.
But they’re just so great.”
Still, despite their friendship, he couldn’t resist playing at least one prank on his costars.
When he realized that Mackie had never seen him clean-shaven, he decided to have a little fun.
I realized he didn’t know who I was as I was walking up to him."
“I was using a German accent, like, ‘Falcon!
You’re so great!’
He was like, ‘What the hell?’
until I got right up to him.
