In an interview with Syfy Wire, Avengers: Endgame screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have been chatting about the memorable ‘America’s Ass’ gag from the superhero blockbuster, with the duo revealing how the joke developed during production.
“It sort of grew on its own,” said Markus. “The first thing that was there was Tony looking at Cap’s terrible Avengers outfit and going, ‘that suit does nothing for your ass.’ That stood on its own for a while, and then Ant-Man was added to the scene, and he said, ‘I think that’s America’s ass.’ And that was the joke for a while.”
“We redid the Cap on Cap fight, the ending of it, and that helped us tremendously,” addsMcFeely. “And then we needed to get out of that scene a little differently, and there [2012 Cap] was, slumped on the ground with his butt in the air… [Chris Evans] was certainly okay with calling attention to that outfit. It wasn’t his favorite.”
“It’s rare that you can find a joke for Captain America to tell in-character as Captain America because he doesn’t do a lot of non-sequitur smart remarks,” states Markus. “So I think Chris is happy when you can get something funny that stays in the Cap wheelhouse.”
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Avengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Paul Rudd (Scott Lang), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts), Evangeline Lilly (The Wasp), Letitia Wright (Shuri) and Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie).
