The significance of a Black Captain America is huge, but not everyone is delighted with Marvel’s latest direction.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.“I think it was something that had to be addressed,” says Anthony Mackie, the 46-year-old actor who is about to be catapulted to a level of fame and scrutiny well beyond anything he has experienced in his near-30-year career as he takes on the role of Captain America on the big screen for the first time.
“I think that’s why it’s important that we make these movies. And it’s important that someone who looks like me and acts like me, with the pedigree that I have, gets to play that role and be in these movies.” In the series, when Wilson turns up at Bradley’s house carrying his new vibranium shield emblazoned with the red white and blue, the older man is scornful. And when Sam asks him why he’s so bitter, Bradley responds, “If you ain’t bitter, you’re blind,” before revealing his complicated backstory.
“Yeah, I might fail. Shit, I might die,” said Wilson. “But we built this country, bled for it. I’m not gonna let anybody tell me I can’t fight for it. Not after what everybody before me went through, including you.” In part, no doubt, it’s because the director is Nigerian-American Julius Onah, who says he was drawn to the project precisely because it would explore how Sam Wilson made sense of his new identity.“We’re meeting him at a place where he has to negotiate what that actually means, what course of action he’s going to take, how he’s going to relate to other people, and how he’s going use the power that the platform gives him,” Onah says.
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