They cast a wide net for the first Captain America.

The first one was more me trying out to see if I could do it. What was it about the role and the Marvel movies that appealed to you? You tried out for the first Captain America. Photo by Julie Vrabelova / Marvel Studios John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Lemar Hoskins (Clé Bennett) in a scene from Falcon and the Winter Soldier. He has to deal with the ramifications of that. But that gets beat down and it ends up being not what he thought it would be. So he has a preconceived notion of what that’s supposed to be. He knows about them and he’s been alive while they’ve existed. John lives in a era where superheroes have existed. When you’re bringing someone in from modern day and they don’t have that history in the MCU, you get to create someone new and someone who has a different take on what being a superhero means. How does he add another layer to the MCU?

John Walker is a fairly new character in the comic books. With the six-episode series past the halfway mark, Russell recalled his first audition to play Cap a decade ago and how Walker will be a different kind of hero in the MCU. “He’s a modern-day soldier who embodies a person who’s about getting the job done and not much else.” “John is from a different era,” the 34-year-old son of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell (who co-starred in the MCU’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. John Walker (Wyatt Russell) in a scene from Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Russell’s Cap joins Sam and Bucky as they try to stop these new entities from taking hold, but he finds his tactics rub the two Avengers the wrong way as they opt to go it alone, recruiting Civil War villain Baron Zemo (Daniel Bruhl) as a temporary ally. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier casts two of Marvel’s supporting heroes in the spotlight - Mackie’s Falcon and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier - as a series of Earthbound terror threats emerge. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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