“Captain America: Brave New World” is released in the movies this Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez and Harrison Ford returned to their experience during the promotion of the film.
It’s the first Marvel movie of the year 2025. Captain America: Brave New World Go out in dark rooms on Wednesday February 12. And with a notable change for all those who used to see Steve Rogers carry the shield: it is now Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), formerly the Falcon, which takes over after the events ofAvengers: Endgame and those of the series Falcon and the winter soldier. With the help of Joaquin Torres, new Falcon (embodied by Danny Ramirez), he finds himself at the heart of an international incident and a world -scale plot that he must thwart.
On the occasion of a round table before the film’s release, actor Anthony Mackie returned to the responsibility to put on the shield of Captain America for the first time in the cinema, after Chris Evans : “Captain America represents good, decency, humanity in each of us. Being able to assume this role and carrying this shield is a huge responsibility and an immense honor.”
A new Captain America
However, continuity was made naturally, since Sam Wilson has always been the right arm of Steve Rogers. Anthony Mackie admits, the two characters “share several characteristics. Captain America represents good, humanity and loyalty in each of us. Anyone in the world can identify with this. The world changes, but Captain America remains the same. ”
Unlike Danny Ramirez and Harrison Ford However, Anthony Mackie is used to the Marvel machine: if it is the first time he has worn the shield of Captain America on the big screen, it was his sixth foray into the MCU he joined in 2014. The challenge this time was different: the actor not only embodies the main role, but also works as a producer. “It was a lot of work,” he concedes.
“It was the first time that I was the headliner of a Marvel film. We made with Julius [Onah, le réalisateur] That we both have a lot of stress, and we supported ourselves a lot. Fortunately, a lot of pressure was lightened because the whole team was enthusiastic and grateful to be there. “
Harrison Ford plays in Captain America: Brave New World
Anthony Mackie is not the only known face to appear in Captain America: Brave New World. Harrison Ford was chosen to play President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross. He takes up the torch of actor William Hurt, who died in 2022. “He was a wonderful actor, and his character in the Marvel universe is different from the roles he usually played”, underlines Harrison Ford in the round table when He admits that he looked at the performance of his predecessor.
“One of the things I observed in Marvel films is that actors that I admitted sincerely took pleasure in playing these roles,” notes this cinematographic industry veteran, who has elsewhere shot in other emblematic franchises of pop culture (Star Wars, Indiana Jones …). Of course, it is work, but to see the pleasure that people took to embody these elaborate and a little wacky characters, it gave the impression that we had fun there. And finally, it was exactly how it looked, and I loved it. “
Anthony Mackie has an excellent memory of his collaboration with Harrison Ford: “Working with him was probably one of the best professional experiences I had. He was so generous, fun, open to this What was the MCU and what it has become … It was all we needed, and much more. “
Danny Ramirez, the new Falcon
If Anthony Mackie swapped the Falcon costume for that of Captain America, the next generation is assured: it is actor Danny Ramirez who embodies the new Falcon, Joaquin Torres. Introduced into Falcon and the winter soldierhe regains service in this new MCU opus. And he assures that the passage of relay continued between the series and the film, and the encouragement developed in friendship and mutual confidence: “From my point of view, I simply witnessed its evolution, and This is a bit of what Joaquin would like with Sam: to be there, alongside his hero and his partner, and to live his dream. Filled, because I was allowed to try to prove me.
Anthony Mackie says he also learned a lot from his partner: “I learned as much as he learned from me. Every day he arrived on the set, I literally saw the excitement and the Gratitude on his face.