Anthony Mackie Offers More On the Falcon's Role in the CAPTAIN AMERICA Sequel

uhm, hell yes

I think he's a really good pick. Can't wait to see it. Hopefully its better than the first...

I'm just glad that Jeremy Renner wasn't the only star from The Hurt Locker to have a part in the MCU. Anthony Mackie is a freakin' beast.

He speaks very passionatly about it, very much looking forward to seeing what he does.

as long as the costume is definitely inspired by 616 it sounds good to me

This shits gonna be awesome. Hes gonna be a huge motherfvcker

Glad he's playing Falcon(would've rather him play Black Panther). I wonder if he's going to be in The Avengers 2? Falcon is going to be a main character in the new Avengers cartoon...

He was great in The Adjustment Bureau.

he was a great choice for the falcon. this is gonna be good. interested to see how marvel spins his backstory, the whole pimp,drugdealer shit wont happen. My guess at the start of the movie or close to it. we will see him as a kid in harlem, both parents are drug-addicts etc. Has a terriable childhood ends up in juvenille detenion. While there he's unsure of him self and where his life is going, enter stan lee cameo. While he's in a libary the janitor walks in see's him staring out a window. Lee tells wilson the answers arnt out there, and thathe needs to look inside himself and find inner strengh, and be more like cap. Wilson has no idea who cap is reads up on him becomes inspired turns his life around. BAM! simple and believable.

I'm glad he got the role he's so glad with it, he's commited and passionate

he was awesome as sgt sanborn

Did he just say that Marvel was hinting at Stark being suited up in The Winter Soldier?

@blackandyellow I did not know he was 5'10'.If he weighs in at 230lbs when production starts he will be huge at that height.That's a lot of weight for a guy that height.Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan need to hit the gym hard if they want to look good next to Anthony Mackie.

Black kids aren't going to look up to Falcon. He's a lame character.

I think they'll stick with Storm, Black Panther and War Machine.

But then there's Storm. He must have forgotten about her. And when I say crime, I mean normal crime and not vampire feeding habits.

@lokibane2012: you have no concept of human psychology, do you? The need to belong; the need to be a part of something familiar; the need to have similar people represented as being worth something like the present majority.

God I hope the Russo bros lay off comedy bits that don't need to be in the tone of Cap 2

"I feel like every kid deserves a hero"
-Good, that's a nice thought.

"now that Spider-Man is Latino (, Latino kids can relate to him)"
-As opposed to when he was white?

"I'm happy that little black kids are going to have the opportunity to say, 'Hey, I want to be the Falcon.'"
-So is something off about little black kids saying 'I want to be Superman or Batman or Spidey'


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@Luminus

"Similar people" is not limited to race. I can relate to Spidey's nerdiness, dorky behavior, and guilt because of his big mistakes just fine. I can relate to Superman's naivety just fine. I can relate to Flash looking up to his heroes and following in their footsteps just fine.

I don't need to be the same color to relate to somebody.

Just because of the color of my skin, is Baz and a few others, the only characters I can relate to? No. I feel no connected to Baz on a human/personality level. He is nothing like me, apart from the color of our skin.

Ergo, you have no concept of either psychology, or common [frick]ing sense.

Don't bring up the human mind, when you obviously understand so little about it.

My initial comment was a passing sarcastic remark.

Some of you questioned my logic, so I explained it. Please, don't turn this into some annoying flame war, that I have no interest in participating.

Lokibane@ There is nothing uncommon or inappropriate about someone who relates more to a role model within their race or gender. It doesn't mean they can't relate to someone outside of that and it has to be a mutually exclusive thing. Who do you think a woman is going to look up to more as a role model...a successful male CEO or a successful female CEO? The psychology on race and gender-based role models is very sound. I deal with it a lot in my work in the community here, in both leadership and cultural diversity programs. There are countless research studies on the topic. This article covers some of that research. The introduction should spell it out quite clearly.

http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/educ/szirkel/02tcr.pdf

Big big fan of Mackie. After the hurt locker I wanted to see him as Luke cage along side Hawkeyes again but Ill take him as the Falcon. Cant wait to see him in action!

i think his comments regarding race and idolizing characters are pretty easy to understand and shouldn't be taken too seriously or as any kind of word for word expression about what he truly believes about the value of being a certain race.
he's being honest, cuz this actually is a thing that crosses a lot of kid's minds and for that matter, adults too, whether they agree that it should or not.

it's always important to separate skin color from cultural differences when talking about this stuff, cuz each really affects our perception of ourselves and others in entirely different ways, and also depends entirely on where u grow up in.

but just for the matter of skin color, and thinking about kids, if i am African American and like someone said above, decide to dress up as Wolverine or say Superman, for Halloween or for an office costume party, just on the level of how it looks, i might feel self conscious about it, cuz i am aware that there's a distinct difference in the appearance of the character. just like if i was a Caucasian American, dressing up as Superman and had hair down to my knees, or dressing up as the Joker with blonde hair. but it's different becuz we are raised to feel that our skin color is in some way more essential to who we are, like who we are born as, than is hair length or color.

some kids and some adults might not give it a second thought, but for others, that self awareness could take away from the fun of the whole thing. or looking at all the comic book characters in general, noticing that people that look like them aren't there much.
and then some people might especially identify with the idea of being the black Superman, like it makes them feel even more badass than Superman himself for whatever reason. that's why they made Supergirl and Superboy and all that stuff. to make the characters more 'relatable' to certain groups of people.

the existence of Supergirl doesn't mean that girls shouldn't look up to Superman. i relate to a lot of female superheroes just as much as male ones (i'm male and straight), but that doesn't mean anything about whether men and women are treated equally in the culture i live in. it speaks more on my own taste for things.

comments like his, (which i don't find offensive at all), are often seen to be in some way equated with racism. and that's kinda understandable becuz they are acknowledging race. and whatever hairs have to split about the actual word 'race', we all know what we all mean. that it's a combination of biological variation and culture. and that exists in this world. people have been brutalizing each other based on this since the beginning of civilization. if there's no other 'races' around then it becomes more finely tuned like fights between Catholics and Protestants. but it has to do with people fighting over resources and having an interest in seeing their own genetic pool prosper.
i'm not saying that's good, but it's reality. and to acknowledge it is not racist. it's racist to say that a person's 'race' determines their essential value as a person.

"its not what is said but what is heard"

What he ment was Spiderman is a Major power house in the realm of comics and Marvel so for him to be latino is a major thing for the latino community(tho he is mixed but that's not the point) as Farkosaurus said about 99% of the superheros (also Villans) are caucasian jnow i know we should look at the characters and not the color of their skin but if walk up to anyone who is not a full Comic book fan and ask them to name 5 Superheros who are not Caucasian just know you are going to be waiting for a while so Falcon being portrayed on the big screen will be big thing for the African-American Community not world changing but at least we will have other roles that we now can play

Also you all are wrong first African American on screen was Spawn(how could you forget)

Side not Could someone Pm me the Correct way to post pictures in comments

Ultimate Spiderman isn't latino. He's american. His father is afriican american and raised him, but he carries his mother's last name?

The latino community doesn't accept that as latino. They don't hate it, but it's not latino, especially if he was raised in the US. It's just heritage, he's american.

Am i thee only one thinkin Mackie is gonna b the one to outshine everyone in CA:TWS ? Go Papa Doc!!!