![]() I will have to read the books and train, of course. And like the audience, I’m excited, because I have no idea. I only know that I will play the character, but I don’t really know what’s happening. “Most of the time, when I get the phone call, I don’t even know the story. “Any time I get to play Ayo, it’s always like a Christmas present,” said Florence Kasumba, aka one of the Dora Milaje. In the making-of program for “WandaVision,” we heard Teyonah Parris say that she didn’t know she was going to portray Monica Rambeau until she booked the job, a Marvel casting tactic that was echoed in this episode of “Assembled” as well. On a spectrum that goes from dramatic to comedic - “Defiant Ones” to “48 Hrs.” to “Lethal Weapon” to “Rush Hour” to “Ride Along” - Spellman said “we knew we wanted to be somewhere near ‘Lethal Weapon.'” Marvel’s characters and storylines are kept tightly under wraps - even from the actors But Sam and Bucky, who famously did not get along in the MCU films, were meant to be the buddy-cop pairing that so many fans wanted. The Steve-Bucky relationship “so dramatic and so filled with pathos,” said Moore. She is a hero that goes bad.” Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson were fashioned as a ‘Lethal Weapon’-level buddy duo We accept the game is rigged, but now they’re getting irresponsible in how much they’re taking from us, and people just have to push back. And if you’re Black, you’ve been having it your whole life, which is: The game is rigged, the people who are at the top are becoming irresponsible. “Even though the pandemic hadn’t hit yet, that all just exacerbated a feeling folks were having. Separately, the antagonist of the series - the misguided Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman) - was mean to “tap into the spirit of how people feel today,” said Spellman. “And we knew that that was going to be crucial to Sam’s burden.” “I felt like we would be dishonest to the fans and dishonest to, just on a human level, if we had this Black man just accept this symbol without having real ambivalence about it,” said Spellman. “How does it feel?” asks Steve, to which Sam replies, “Like it’s someone else’s.” Co-exec producer Zoie Nagelhout called it the “backbone of Sam’s arc.” ![]() This line in ‘Endgame’ was foundational to the Sam Wilson’s character in ‘Falcon’Īccording to executive producer Nate Moore, the line in “Endgame” that most resonated with “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” head writer Malcolm Spellman occurred during the scene in which Steve Rogers passes on the Captain America shield to Sam Wilson. The hour-long program, part of the “Marvel Studios Assembled” series that last gave us a look at how “WandaVision” was made, was just released on Disney Plus on Friday. While Bucky Barnes-Sarah Wilson ‘shippers are clamoring for Marvel Studios to #ReleaseTheBuckySarahCut, it’ll have to settle for a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the creation of “ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” that includes more delightful Helmut Zemo cuts and a look at the way the writers approached Sam Wilson’s (Anthony Mackie) transformation into Captain America.
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