We don’t know a lot about Anthony Mackie’s role as The Falcon in the upcoming Marvel Studios sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but now we’ve got a few details from the actor himself. In an interview with AICN, Mackie spoke more so than he has previously about the part.
“I will have wings. I will be able to fly. I will be a superhero and fight people, namely The Winter Soldier.”
Mackie has been really studying for the part, too.
“It was funny; a lot of the research I found was online. My older brother was a huge comic book buff. So when the news came out online, he called me and just gave me the whole rundown. Luckily, I have a lot of friends who werent cool growing up, but who are really cool now, so they read a lot of comic books. So I would just call and ask them, and they would send me all of this stuff online, and I got to read a bunch of the old comic books. Its fortunate, because its a take off the comic book, its not the exactly storyline of the comic book.”
Mackie didn’t reveal much else about the film, specifically because he fears getting replaced on the film before it even gets started, and for that reason he wouldn’t confirm if his character would have his pet falcon Redwing in the film.
“This is what I learned about franchises. They can always cast somebody else and say, ‘Well that last person died,’ or just not address it. You see the second movie, and the guy is a different guy than the first, and they’re like, ‘Yep, same dude to me.’
One thing Mackie would confirm though is that filming for Captain America: The WInter Soldier would begin on April 1.
The film is slated to star Chris Evans, reprising his role as Steve Rogers/Captain America, and newcomer Frank Grillo as Crossbones. Reprising their roles from Marvel’s The Avengers are Samuel L. Jackson as Fury, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill. Also returning is Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier.
Set to be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier will hit theaters on April 4, 2014.
