Anthony Mackie Hated a Enormous A part of His Falcon and the Winter Soldier Cap Costume

While you’re enjoying a well-established superhero, sure components of the super-suit are set in stone. However whereas the protect is all the time going to be a part of Captain America‘s get-up, turns on the market’s some wiggle room for components of the costume that the star carrying it—on this case, Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World—can say “Completely not” to.

And this wasn’t an arbitrary request to vary one thing. Mackie had worn the offending swimsuit for Disney+ sequence The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and he was not about to don it once more for the large display screen in Courageous New World. His actual phrases, as you possibly can see beneath in IGN’s interview, have been “I informed them I used to be by no means carrying that shit once more, dude,” particularly referencing the white cowl that was a part of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier-era ensemble.

“I informed them I used to be by no means carrying that s**t once more,” mentioned Captain America: Courageous New World’s Anthony Mackie of the white cowl that was launched in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. pic.twitter.com/GvjCaKARaM

— IGN (@IGN) February 7, 2025

“That was exhausting,” Mackie continued. “It was—with the warmth, the sweat, the fogged-up glasses, it was unimaginable. It was referred to as a ‘cowl’… it was my worst nightmare. You’ll be able to’t do something.”

It’s completely comprehensible on Mackie’s half, but it surely’s fascinating and virtually form of a disgrace that the cowl was one actually distinctive ingredient of Sam’s Captain America swimsuit that was translated from the comics into stay motion. You’ll be able to see why it wouldn’t work in stay motion in a means that it’s a lot simpler to only draw into a comic book e book design—no less than Marvel tried, even when it in the end didn’t make it one thing Mackie may tolerate carrying any extra.

Captain America: Courageous New World, that includes a handy guide a rough new swimsuit with no cowl, hits theaters February 14.

Need extra io9 information? Take a look at when to count on the newest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on film and TV, and every thing you want to learn about the way forward for Doctor Who.