![]() I think there is a corporate aspect to the inception of his character as Captain America. How should we expect him to evolve this season? The first impression that I had of John is that he’s a slicker and maybe more corporate version of Captain America than Steve Rogers. ![]() We worked on a lot of shield work and footwork and all kinds of things to try and prepare us to look like we knew what we’re doing. So I worked a lot with my stunt performer, Justin Eaton. Anything you ask them to do, they can pretty much do. They can do backflips off a 10 story building. And that’s why you have this incredible stunt team. You don’t know where to put your hand sometimes. When you’re seeing him do his version of it, is it really who John actually is? Or is John trying to be someone that he’s not? What was the training like? What’s it like to handle the shield? In John’s world, he looks up to Steve Rogers, and wants to embody that. I just felt the weight of, can I be what they’re gonna want me to be? Or are they gonna lose a bunch of money? Did you study Chris Evans at all in preparing for the role, his mannerisms or movements as Cap? I thought that actually, it may be a good fit. That did have elements of what John Walker was, and when they kind of explained to me where he was and what he was, it fit how I felt about it in a way. It was like, wow, you know, I don’t know. And then do I want to be the guy who’s - do I want to wear the Captain America suit, to be honest. It was honestly more of my interest in playing the character where you don’t want to do anything that’s been done before. It sounds like you felt a little similar in being asked to do essentially do the same thing? The first time we really meet John on the show, he’s feeling the weight of this role that he’s taking on of being the new Captain America. Here’s what Russell had to say about picking up Cap’s shield, working with Mackie and Sebastian Stan, and what it was like to see his face meme’d across the entire internet. Based on the vituperative fan reaction so far to John Walker on the show - as Russell says, “They just hate him!” - it’s safe to say Russell has effectively made his Cap quite different from Chris Evans’. “I kind of had some doubts.”Įventually, Russell came around, in part, as he explained to Variety, because Marvel made clear they didn’t want him to play Steve Rogers 2.0. “My first reaction was like, ‘Ewwohhh, I don’t know if I’m your guy to do that,'” Russell said over Zoom. Initially, Russell didn’t want it either. ![]() It was only after he landed the gig that Marvel Studios told him he’d booked the role of John Walker, who takes on the mantel of Captain America after Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) turns it down. ![]() Like so many actors before him, when Wyatt Russell first auditioned for the Disney Plus series “ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” he had no idea what character he was trying out to play. ![]()
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