The actor now stars as 'the new Captain America' on the Disney+ series, The Falcon and the. 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. Wyatt Russell Reveals He Originally Auditioned to Play Captain America Before Chris Evans Was Cast. 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. Hawkeye director breaks down finale, from Mockingbird Easter Egg to altered fight scene He attempts to join Wilson and Barnes in their fight, 13 7 : 5 14 and believes he is a better embodiment of American values than Rogers was. Army Rangers, 12 and the new Captain America chosen by the U.S. They’re a little bit more gnarly,’ he commented. Wyatt Russell as John Walker / Captain America / U.S. 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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