Mackie is at his home in New Orleans, in what looks like a sports bar. His generic Zoom background is of a tropical beach. “They’re cut from different cloth, so to speak, and have to find a way to coexist and work together,” says Stan, “and to some extent, that’s what Anthony and I have had to do for the last seven years or whatever we’ve been working together.” In the time-honoured buddy tradition, Mackie’s Falcon and Stan’s Winter Soldier are initially reluctant partners, to the extent they can’t even agree to call themselves partners. Hot on the heels of the well-received WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a doubling down, with a reported budget of $25m per episode – almost twice as expensive as The Crown. ![]() Having held the movie world’s attention with the Avengers saga, Marvel is gambling on doing the same on the small screen. ![]() Now, in the absence of Evans, they are back for a six-part Disney+ series that seeks to continue not just their stories but the whole Marvel machine. Mackie’s winged war veteran Sam Wilson entered the story at that stage, and both characters soldiered through numerous Marvel campaigns ( Ant-Man, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War) before being vaporised at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. He supposedly died in that movie, only to return as Captain America’s brainwashed, metal-armed nemesis The Winter Soldier in 2014. Bucky Barnes made his entrance as Cap’s wartime comrade in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. In the Marvel movies, both characters were always in the shadow of Chris Evans’s Captain America – two Hooches to his Turner. The last two, if not the first, apply to Mackie and Stan’s double act The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Or, increasingly, they come back for their own small-screen spin-off. Or they miraculously survive the incident that supposedly killed them off. ![]() Old superheroes never die they just get recast. “He went too far with Turner and Hooch”, reckons Mackie. “Oh man, I gotta rewatch that movie now,” says Stan. That’s the perfect description of who we are.”įor the uninitiated, in the 1989 comedy, Turner was a detective played by Tom Hanks and Hooch was a big, unruly dog. By this stage, Mackie is laughing his head off in a separate Zoom window: “We’re definitely the Turner and Hooch of the Marvel Universe.
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