Chris Evans actually broke the news to Anthony Mackie that he would be the next Captain America

Here’s a great life-imitates-art story from the press tour for ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ – Chris Evans was actually the one who informed Anthony Mackie that Steve Rogers would pass the shield on to Sam Wilson at the end of ‘Avengers : Endgame’, making him the new Captain America in the MCU.

Mackie says it happened at Evans’ house in Atlanta one night before filming, when Evans asked him if he had read the latest ‘Endgame’ script. He said he hadn’t, and when Evans insisted he come down to his man cave to check the last ten pages right away, Mackie assumed his character had been killed off. He thought Evans would just see his reaction to reading it as a dude who gets a kick out of seeing you get rejected at a bar or something. However, when he got to the moment in the script where Rogers hands him the shield, and Evans confirmed what it meant – they were “jumping around in circles” like little kids celebrating together.

Say what you will about how Sam Wilson (and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole) has been dealt with after ‘Endgame’, but that moment in the movie was a great passing of the torch, and the fact that it actually happened like that in real life is incredible to me. Plus, Mackie has always come across as such a likable guy — whether it’s celebrating his friend Sebastian Stan’s Golden Globes win recently, mocking Tom Holland at Comic Cons and press events over the years, or even chopping it up on KFC Radio. ..

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I hope ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is great – especially for him. How could you not root for Papa Doc?

Marvel could really use a blockbuster to open 2025, and they’ll definitely need Sam Wilson’s Cap to hit audiences before he steps up in what I assume is a big role in the next two ‘Avengers’ movies . I know there have been tons of test screenings and retakes that have everyone panicking right now, but as I blogged yesterday, not all retakes spell trouble…

I honestly like what I’ve seen from the trailers so far, with ‘Brave New World’ obviously trying to evoke the same espionage feel that ‘The Winter Soldier’ ​​did…

We have Harrison Ford as President of the United States (who is also a Red Hulk) again with Isiah Bradley trying to assassinate him (possibly under mind control)Giancarlo Esposito makes his MCU debut, Tim Blake Nelson returns to the MCU to play a classic Marvel character in The Leader, the big-ass Celestial in the ocean will finally be dealt with…

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….I mean, what could go wrong? It all sounds pretty sick to me! It’s certainly not too much to cram into one movie with a running time of under two hours! I’m not in denial/begging for this movie as a massive Captain America fan!

PS if that do everything goes wrong and this disappoints us in the same way that ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ did, my Valentine’s Day date with Clem will be RUINED! Listen to the latest episode of My Mom’s Basement below…