Anthony Mackie Hated a Big A part of His Falcon and the Winter Soldier Cap Costume

Whenever you’re enjoying a well-established superhero, sure components of the super-suit are set in stone. However whereas the defend is all the time going to be a part of Captain America‘s get-up, turns on the market’s some wiggle room for components of the costume that the star carrying it—on this case, Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World—can say “Completely not” to.

And this wasn’t an arbitrary request to alter one thing. Mackie had worn the offending swimsuit for Disney+ collection The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and he was not about to don it once more for the massive display in Courageous New World. His actual phrases, as you’ll be able to see under in IGN’s interview, have been “I instructed them I used to be by no means carrying that shit once more, dude,” particularly referencing the white cowl that was a part of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier-era ensemble.

“I instructed them I used to be by no means carrying that s**t once more,” mentioned Captain America: Courageous New World’s Anthony Mackie of the white cowl that was launched in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. pic.twitter.com/GvjCaKARaM

— IGN (@IGN) February 7, 2025

“That was arduous,” Mackie continued. “It was—with the warmth, the sweat, the fogged-up glasses, it was inconceivable. It was referred to as a ‘cowl’… it was my worst nightmare. You may’t do something.”

It’s completely comprehensible on Mackie’s half, however it’s attention-grabbing and virtually type of a disgrace that the cowl was one actually distinctive factor of Sam’s Captain America swimsuit that was translated from the comics into stay motion. You may see why it wouldn’t work in stay motion in a method that it’s a lot simpler to simply draw into a comic book e-book design—no less than Marvel tried, even when it in the end didn’t make it one thing Mackie may tolerate carrying any extra.

Captain America: Courageous New World, that includes a handy guide a rough new swimsuit with no cowl, hits theaters February 14.

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