![]() ![]() When you take the and spin it on its head, what do those conversations look like?”Ĭomics have a long history of social commentary- X-Men’s allusions to the HIV crisis, Black Panther’s debut at the height of the civil rights movement-and Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s exploration of America’s history of white supremacy continues that tradition. “I have four little Black boys, and now they’re also going to have a conversation with their white, Asian, and Latino friends. Now you have white kids who will look up to a Black Captain America,” Mackie told me via Zoom. Representation has become a media priority, but it’s still relatively rare for Black and Brown performers to serve as leads in tentpole franchise films, making Mackie’s ascension to de facto Avengers leader meaningful for the actor and audiences. It ends (spoiler alert) with Wilson stepping up to become the new Captain America and the first Black man to take up the mantle in a live-action production. This March, Mackie and his character graduated from his wingman post and took the lead in the Disney+ breakout miniseries Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The show, which ended its first season earlier this month, explores what it means to be a modern hero and a person of color in 2021. Falcon, the Air Force veteran turned superhero, who has served as a fan-favorite supporting player within the Avengers roster. For seven years and six films, he’s portrayed Sam Wilson, a.k.a. Over the last two decades, he’s defused bombs in Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, rap battled Eminem in 8 Mile, and been a consistent scene-stealer in the movies and television shows that comprise the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the .uk entertainment team by emailing us calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.Even if you aren’t familiar with his comic alter ego, Anthony Mackie is a familiar face. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is available to watch on Disney Plus with new episodes released on Fridays. ![]() ![]() But the way they portrayed him to me, the things that he’d be going through fighting against, and internal struggles, and all the other elements of the character, it seemed like something worth doing.’ ‘Eventually, they were able to tell me a little bit about what it was rather than just blindly going in reading the lines… And even then it’s still kind of confusing. ‘At first it was like, “Well, I love Marvel, but not that much.” I gotta know what I’m doing,” he said. They’re a little bit more gnarly,’ he commented.īelow Deck's Gary King drops huge Daisy Kelliher bombshell amid Colin MacRae love triangle They’re not Steve Rogers, they’re not the same. ‘But his way is a very specific way that he has learned through being basically a trained human hunter. ‘Hopefully they don’t hate me too much,’ he remarked, before adding that ‘it would be an honour, I guess, to be disliked in the Marvel universe’.ĭelving deeper into the mindset of his character, Wyatt said that John has been ‘thrust into this role as Captain America and he’s going to do it his way, and he wants to do it right’. Speaking to USA Today, the actor said of the response to his character: ‘People are probably going to hate it, and some people are going to love it’. While talking about his new role as John in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Wyatt said it would be an ‘honour’ for Marvel fans to ‘dislike’ him – given the adverse reaction many viewers had to the ‘new Captain America’ reveal. Wyatt Russell with Wunmi Mosaku and Ken Yamamura in series three of Black Mirror (Picture: Netflix/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock) ![]()
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