The director tells us why the Disney + series told an important story, and not just for Marvel …
And Faclon and the Winter Soldier hasn’t always been a great series, it did offer some great moments. Notably when the Marvel Universe turned the table upside down by offering the Captain America costume to Sam Wilson. After a year in full swing in the USA, in the footsteps of “Black Lives Matter”, installing a black hero behind this iconic shield was a very emotional moment, for the spectators, but also on the set:
The director Kari Skogland, who directed all 6 episodes of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, remembers that moment when Sam “open this box Bucky gave him. It was truly a powerful, essential moment. Even if, for the record, there was just nothing in it during the shooting (laughs)! Anthony Mackie played the shock really well! But kidding aside, we shot this sequence on the second day of the shoot and I think that’s when I had to pinch myself to believe it, to realize that we were really going to do this “, insists Kari Skogland in a recent interview with Premiere, specifying that there was another moment to make your hair on your arms, during the production of the Marvel show:
“When Anthony arrived with the Captain America costume on his back on set for the first time … It was really strong. You have to know that we had been working on the design of this costume for months already. ‘It’s unique for Sam. That a black man wears this Captain America costume, it gave us all chills. We were aware of the importance of such a project, for the MCU but for the world in general . We knew what it was. But to see it come to life before our eyes, it was breathtaking. “
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Because this episode 6 did not fail to underline the symbolism of this passing of the torch. A decisive moment for the MCU, but not that: “I knew from the start that we were going to come to this. For me, it was the most important story of the series. Quite simply. A major story of our time, with this black man taking over the shield, a quintessential white emblem, whether in the MCU and even in superheroic pop culture, “ decrypts the director and producer of the Disney series.
“So from the start, I wanted to rethink the nature of the hero behind this shield, the Chris Evans who is associated with the character of Captain America, created in a post-WWII era and thought of as an anti-fascist symbol. . He was a somewhat dated hero, because the world has changed. And in fact, the heroes of our world are not the same. After September 11, they became the people on the front lines, those who manage emergencies. And inevitably even more so during the pandemic! Suddenly, it was essential in my opinion to rethink the image of the shield and the hero who wears it.“
From now on, it is therefore Sam Wilson, an African-American Avenger, who will defend the colors of America, in the continuation of the Marvel Universe and certainly already in Captain America 4.
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