We know this is great, and I'm-- and I'm serious when
I say it, like, I want to find other
things to work with him on.
Like, I feel like he and I should go to Broadway
and bring the odd couple and like do it together.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You are you with this amazing franchise, and it works.
Like, everything works, every movie is a success.
The last thing you want to do is be the lead of the first thing
that does not work.
But before we started shooting, Kevin called me one day
and was like, you know, Anthony, I won't let you suck.
[LAUGHS] And that was the big thing.
You get to go home with these characters now.
You're experiencing a day in their life
in a way that you didn't before, because you
couldn't in a 2 and 1/2 hour movie that had 30 characters,
you know.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Marvel has kind of revolutionized the game.
It's turned the knob a little bit from just
come in and blow up to really giving character development,
exposition, and story.
And one of the things we were really tackling with tonally
for our show was Anthony and I and our rapport, which
we have in life, obviously.
And we enjoy working together and bust each other's balls,
you know.
And how do we translate that to the characters in a way that
feels, you know, not just like we're screwing around,
but it actually applies to the text in the story
and all that stuff, right?
And there is this odd couple kind of counterpart to the two
of them that we really discovered.
I think it was a very smart move, actually,
to make Wanda Vision first.
You know, Wanda Vision is really character and actor based.
It's really, I think, a showpiece for Elizabeth Olsen
and everything that she has to do episode to episode,
as well as Paul, and it really gives you a great opportunity
to invest in those characters and grow
with them to the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
There are things about The Falcon
that you never would have thought
of until you see the show.
And you understand him in such a different way
after you see the show.
And similarly with-- with Bucky too.
Sam Wilson is grappling with the idea of what
that new normal is after the bleep
and figure out how we reacclimate into society.
And go, hey, you know, I grew up
in the '50s, and my mentality is this and this and this, but you
know what, like, wait a minute.
That-- I might have to reask those questions,
I might have to relearn a couple of things,
I might have to open my eyes a little bigger here, you know,
which is something that's very relatable we've
all kind of had to do.
And you know, a lot of the lessons,
a lot of the things he learns from-- he learned from
Steve Rogers plays into that.
That's principals, right?
That's morals, bigger issues.
And then there's also the little ones, like,
can you work an iPhone?
[LAUGHS]
They had a very close relationship, Sam and Steve,
of admiration and respect.
But Sam's relationship and most Black Americans' relationship
with America is not the case.
So that makes the legacy of that shield very complicated.
And you know, it's--
it's something that we, as African-Americans,
have always had to recognize, relate,
acknowledge, and accept.
So you have to ask yourself the question,
are you willing to represent that shield?
It's a complicated question and a complicated reality.
And that's where the show gets very timely,
and that's where the show does feel very familiar.
It is a fun show and it is-- it is definitely that buddy comedy
that is reminiscent of the '80s, perhaps some of those,
you know, familiar movies, but then the show is
very grounded because of the questions
that it asks the viewer to--
to ask themselves by the end of it.
You know, for me, it's really interesting not so much
as an individual or a person, but you know, being a dad,
being an uncle.
It means a lot.
Like there are so many--
it's a very interesting time we live in.
So I think the idea of kids having to have their,
you know--
those conversations with their parents
and their friends about what the new Marvel Universe looks like
and the new characters they have and
how they fit into that universe, I think it's very important.
And I think it's going to leave a legacy
on this generation that will carry
on into the next generation.
It also just goes to show that--
that there's really everything-- anything's possible now.
I mean, they've just got intertwining stories
between the movies and the shows,
and the world is just getting bigger
and it gives them more opportunities
to explore characters.
And as you've seen, people are making cameos in these shows
that you didn't expect.
My ultimate dream was to wear the red suit,
The Falcon had many different suits across the comic book
life, but one was the deep V like Spandex red suit,
and that was why I was so excited.
I'm like, for a dude to be able to get in great shape
and wear Spandex is every actor's dream.
So I feel like it's kind of an exciting time over there
in the sense of what they could be doing next,
you know, fans can really finely think about those pairings
of characters that they've always wanted
and feel that maybe that's actually going to happen now.
I'm hoping, one day, that I get
to wear the red Spandex suit.
I think people are going to enjoy that.