Within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes have a relationship that mixes a deep friendship with infinite antagonism. They’re one of the crucial entertaining odd {couples} within the MCU, and evidently one of many causes they work so effectively collectively on display screen, is that the real-life friendship between Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan is sort of related.
Each Mackie and Stan might be main their very own upcoming Marvel motion pictures this yr, Mackie with Captain America: Courageous New World in February and Stan with Thunderbolts* in Could. Showing on the Selection Awards Circuit podcast, Sebastian Stan threw some shade at his fellow headliner, all in good enjoyable after all. Regardless of being in two main movies which have obtained awards seasons reward, A Totally different Man and The Apprentice, Stan says his 2024 was a quiet yr, as a result of he didn’t spend it with Mackie. Stan mentioned…
[Filming] Thunderbolts*, let me let you know, it was a a lot quieter yr for me, as a result of I didn’t see Anthony Mackie. So I’ll say that. Though, I miss Anthony Mackie like each day, and it’s one thing I don’t prefer to admit.
Whereas Sebastian Stan is having some enjoyable at his buddy’s expense, it’s fairly the assertion to say his yr was quiet since apparently hanging out with Anthony Mackie is wilder than all the Thunderbolts* group. Stan has in contrast the Marvel film to The Breakfast Membership for the way in which it throws collectively a bunch of misfit characters. One has to imagine it was fairly the busty film contemplating Thunderbolts* forged is so stacked.
Mackie and Stan co-starred within the second Marvel sequence for Disney+, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. The characters made for entertaining allies as the 2 finest mates of Captain America tried to navigate a world with out him. They’d considerably completely different strategies for taking part in the hero, however they teamed up fairly effectively collectively. Now, every character’s story will proceed as every takes middle stage.
From earlier Captain America motion pictures to the Avengers movies to Falcon and Winter Soldier, these two actors have not often appeared in Marvel motion pictures with out one another. This is not even the primary time Sebastian Stan has joked about making a film with out Anthony Mackie. It should really feel a bit of odd for each to make a Marvel film with out the opposite.
Stan’s feedback point out that we gained’t see both his or Mackie’s characters cross over from their very own motion pictures into one another this yr. Although simply earlier than commenting above, Stan was requested if he appeared in Captain America: Courageous New World and he deftly averted answering the query. In fact, it’s doable that Stan does seem within the new Captain America film, and easily doesn’t share a scene with Mackie. We may very simply see a post-credits scene in Courageous New World that units up Thunderbolts*.
In fact, placing these two in the identical film and never having them share a scene could be close to felony. They work so effectively collectively and clearly adore one another as individuals. Even when we cannot see them collectively within the Marvel motion pictures this yr, hopefully it gained’t be an excessive amount of longer earlier than they cross paths once more.