How ‘retired’ Chris Evans told Anthony Mackie he was going to be the next Captain America

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Esquire’s new cover story on Anthony Mackie, Chris Evans told the mag that he broke the news to his Marvel co-star that Mackie was going to be the next Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.“I inadvertently was the one who got to tell him that he was going to be Captain America.

I didn’t know that he didn’t know,” Evans, 43, said in the story, published Thursday.Evans, who played Captain America in 11 MCU movies, explained that he surprised Mackie with the news at a gathering at his house during the filming of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”“I said, ‘Man, isn’t that scene so beautiful?

I love it so much and I’m so happy for you,'” Evans recalled, referring to the moment in “Endgame” where the elderly Steve Rogers gives Mackie’s Sam Wilson Captain America’s shield.Evans said he ran upstairs, grabbed the “Endgame” script and gave it to his co-star and friend.“I got to sit there and watch him read it,” Evans shared. “And he was just so happy.”Mackie shared his side of the story in a recent interview with Fandango.“Being black, I’m like, ‘I’ma die, damn.

They’re getting rid of me, man. I don’t even cause no trouble. I stand in the back, like I don’t bother nobody,'” Mackie said, explaining that he thought the script was going to reveal Sam’s death.Mackie continued, “He gets the new script.