![]() ![]() ![]() But the little ones, they don't get how you're on TV and on the couch at the same time. They've seen all the work that I've put in and all the things that I've had to do to sacrifice to get to where I am. The 11- and 8-year-old, to them it's really cool. Mackie: The five of us were watching it together, and the two little ones looked at the TV, they looked back at me, they looked at the TV and they're like, “Dad, you could be Captain America.” I was like, “ I know.” And the other two start laughing and they're like, “Can we have some more popcorn?” I'm like, “So y'all don't give a (care) about anything but popcorn.” (Laughs) Q: How much cooler are you now to your kids being Cap? But the reality of it is, how do we move forward in a more sophisticated way instead of dropping-a-city-on-people way. It's very important to realize that if push comes to shove, he can give you a one-two (punch). (Laughs) So instead of using brute and brawn, and him being a former military counselor to vets, his emotional (and) mental path is completely different. He's just a dude who went for a job and became an Avenger. You have to realize, he's the only person who's not a superhero. Captain America will be very different going forward. Mackie: It was a very important line and moment for him as Captain America. Does Sam take on that mantle, too, in his impromptu speech where he says, “The only power that I have is that I believe we can do better”? Q: Steve Rogers was, for a long time, the MCU's moral center. So by the time I got to the 'I'm Captain America' moment, I was like, ‘Dude, this is the worst job. ![]() And then I took a full kick to the chest and I went down, but it didn't knock me out. “We were doing our fight sequence and he actually punched me in the face,” Mackie says in an interview from his home in New Orleans. “And I have to say, I took a full punch from Georges St-Pierre and I did not go down. 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier': How Marvel's new show takes on race, patriotism and Captain America Recap: No surprise, it's Captain America in 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' finale The former Falcon introduces himself (“I’m Captain America”) when characters he's trying to help don’t recognize his spiffy red, white and blue winged suit, but also throws down with the mercenary Batroc, played by world-renowned MMA fighter Georges St-Pierre. “Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites,” the description concludes.Watch Video: Anthony Mackie jokes his first day as 'Captain America' was the worstĪnthony Mackie’s first day as Marvel’s new Captain America was the worst day of his acting life.įriday’s finale episode of Disney+’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” revealed Mackie’s Sam Wilson – a Marvel Cinematic Universe regular since 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” – as the high-flying superhero who's officially taking over the mantle from Chris Evans. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as a thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature.” It adds, “Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. The official description on Barnes & Noble for the book states, “Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order-all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.” All Rights Reserved.Īs for the new title, it’s hard to not believe it’s not inspired by Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. Falcon/Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) in Marvel Studios’ THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER exclusively on Disney+. ![]()
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