Anthony Mackie says Chris Evans secretly showed him ‘Avengers Endgame’ script early: “You’re fucking Captain America”
nme.comCaptain America: Brave New World, Anthony Mackie has revealed that his predecessor Chris Evans was the one to tell him he was taking on the mantle – showing him an early version of the script for Avengers: Endgame.In the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Evans’ character Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, arrives having grown old after going back in time to live with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).
Mackie’s character, Sam Wilson, who had fought beside him as the hero Falcon, is handed Rogers’ famous shield.The exchange saw Wilson become the new Captain America.
The character has assumed this role in the series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but Brave New World will be his first big screen appearance.Speaking to Fandango ahead of the film’s release on February 14, he said: “It was a bunch of us at (Chris Evans’) house—he had this crazy house—sitting there watching a game, shooting the shit.
He goes, ‘Have you read the new script?’ I said, ‘Nah’.”Mackie confessed he feared the worst. “Being Black” he explained, “I’m like ‘I’mma die, damn.
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