{"id":7941,"date":"2013-04-15T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:17:30","slug":"anthony-mackie-talks-playing-the-falcon-in-captain-america-the-winter-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=7941","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Mackie talks playing the Falcon in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Anthony-Mackie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7942\" alt=\"Anthony-Mackie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Anthony-Mackie.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a> While promoting his new film, <strong>Michael Bay&#8217;s <em>Pain and Gain<\/em><\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2013\/04\/exclusive-anthony-mackie-prominent-role-in-captain-america-the-winter-soldier\/\"> Black Film<\/a> caught up\u00a0with <strong>Anthony Mackie<\/strong> and got him talking about his new role in the next<strong><em> Captain America<\/em><\/strong> Film as <strong>Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon<\/strong>, which has currently begun filming.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m happy to say that I\u2019m in a good deal of the movie and I play an integral part with Captain America taking down the winter soldier. It\u2019s great. They started the shoot 2 1\/2 weeks ago and once I finished doing press for \u2018Pain &amp; Gain,\u2019 I go in and join them. I\u2019ve been doing combat training and fitness training just to get prepared. It\u2019s going to be something and I\u2019m excited for it.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the recent concept art for\u00a0<strong>The Falcon<\/strong>\u00a0that was\u00a0revealed\u00a0earlier\u00a0this month with the release of the\u00a0<em><strong>Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One Collecter&#8217;s Set<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<strong>Mackie<\/strong>\u00a0stated this about the costume:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cThey just released pictures of the costume last week. It\u2019s more of a military style tactical costume. He\u2019s more along the lines of Captain America as far as superhero as opposed to a true superhero.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/phase2falcon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7946\" alt=\"phase2falcon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/phase2falcon.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And when asked if he was\u00a0familiar\u00a0with the character prior to being cast <strong>Mackie<\/strong> replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cI had never heard of the Falcon. I knew nothing about him. Once they sent me the comic book and told me everything they wanted me to do, I read up some and looked up his story. I\u2019m really excited. He\u2019s a cool character and we need that. We that (black) superhero that looks like them.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then speaking with <a href=\"http:\/\/collider.com\/captain-america-2-anthony-mackie-interview\/\">Collider<\/a>, the actor revealed that he&#8217;ll be taking part in the upcoming filming that takes place in <strong>Manhatten Beach<\/strong> and <strong>Cleveland<\/strong>. And with the actor now having to slim down for the role (due to his bulking up for the role in <strong><em>Pain and Gain<\/em><\/strong>) the actor stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cWell, it\u2019s more so a cardio thing now. I mean, you know, if you\u2019re a super hero\u2026 I didn\u2019t want to get too bulky. You know there\u2019s a lot of limitations to how big I was for Pain and Gain, whereas with this I just want to be fit, you know. I just want to be in shape to where I can go in and do all the stunts and all the things I feel like I would need to do to bring this character to life. So, it all depends. I met with the studio very early on and I told them I was going to throw on some weight and get bigger and they said, \u201cNo, no, no, no don\u2019t do that. Stay a smaller weight and we\u2019ll figure out something character-wise.\u201d So, you know, that\u2019s kind of what it turned into.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/strong><\/em> is scheduled to hit <strong>US<\/strong> theaters in <strong>2D<\/strong> and <strong>3D<\/strong> on\u00a0<strong>April 4, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While promoting his new film, Michael Bay&#8217;s Pain and Gain, Black Film caught up\u00a0with Anthony Mackie and got him talking about his new role in the next Captain America Film as Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon, which has currently begun filming. \u201cI\u2019m happy to say that I\u2019m in a good deal of the movie and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,2,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics-2","category-comics-videogames","category-film-tv","category-movies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anthony Mackie talks playing the Falcon in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=7941\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anthony Mackie talks playing the Falcon in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While promoting his new film, Michael Bay&#8217;s Pain and Gain, Black Film caught up\u00a0with Anthony Mackie and got him talking about his new role in the next Captain America Film as Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon, which has currently begun filming. \u201cI\u2019m happy to say that I\u2019m in a good deal of the movie and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=7941\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theculturednerd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-15T19:17:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Taylor Murphy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@theculturednerd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@theculturednerd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Taylor Murphy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theculturednerd.org\\\/?p=7941#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theculturednerd.org\\\/?p=7941\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Taylor Murphy\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theculturednerd.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/239d8c15e6cd80653445f6cdf32c822f\"},\"headline\":\"Anthony Mackie talks playing the Falcon in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-15T19:17:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theculturednerd.org\\\/?p=7941\"},\"wordCount\":500,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/theculturednerd.org\\\/?p=7941#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Comics\",\"Comics &amp; 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