Anthony Mackie is currently in the middle of reshoots for his film Captain America: Brave New World, but he’s getting really candid about the creative process.
The actor tells Radio Times that he feels he’s allowed to be more creative as a performer outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not completely shading the MCU but expressing his feelings of being restricted.
“I would say the Marvel thing is completely different, just because it’s such a space of controlled entertainment. Like, there’s only so much you can do,” Mackie notes. “There’s only so much creativity you can bring to the table because Stan Lee gave us so much content. Whereas with this [Twisted Metal], it was like, ‘There’s a guy and a girl … Go!’ So we were really able to build the world around it.”
Mackie compares working in the Twisted Metal universe, where anything could happen to any character. “That’s the hard thing about the Marvel universe. It’s like, you can’t really go outside of the lines of those comic books,” the actor said.
“You know, when we introduced the Falcon, and the growth of the Falcon to Captain America, all of that had to coincide with what Stan had already gave us. So it’s an interesting juggle to be a part of that world. And this was more like, ‘Let’s just have fun and figure it out as we go.'”
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Captain America: Brave New World will star Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, Harrison Ford as General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, a returning Liv Tyler reprising her role as Betty Ross from The Incredible Hulk, Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres, Carl Lumbly as Isaiah Bradley, Tim Blake Nelson as The Leader, and Shira Haas as Sabra. Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox) is directing from a script initially written by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier writer Malcolm Spellman & Dalan Musson.
