Sebastian Stan made his superhero debut as James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes in 2011 Captain America: The First AvengerSince then, he has reprised his character in several Marvel Cinematic Universe projects and will join a larger team of misfits in the next Lightning*.
In a new interview with Variety, where the actor guessed which lines belong to some of his most famous movies and TV shows, Bucky Barnes came up a lot. The superhero role is one of his most famous parts, and he's returned to Bucky many times over the past decade. The actor described his journey so far, which has included three Captain America movie, two Avengersand the limited series The Falcon and the Winter Soldieras well as the Disney+ animated series What if…?.
“It's crazy to think about because I never thought I'd be playing the character for 15 years,” Stan detailed his journey, explaining his experience with comics. “I didn't grow up with comics, so I fell in love with them at that time, and I was really amazed at how much Comics capture many things about the world in a different way. Sometimes even asking certain questions that we are able to ask, and I think I appreciated that.”
The actor also lost his iconic line, “How can I? You're carrying all the stupidity around with you,” which his character and Chris Evans' Steve Rogers have said on multiple occasions, most recently in 2019. Avengers: Endgame. Instead, the actor guessed Captain America: Civil War. “I think both Chris Evans and I had that line, so…” He continued, “Actually, a lot of fans remind me of this phrase often. That one is “I'll be with you until the end of the line.”” He further explained the filming for the iconic movie and the secrecy involved. Since the MCU is known for keeping secrets until a project is pitched, many actors had no idea how Final it would end.
“This was the scene where there is a kind of goodbye, which was a scene I knew we were shooting that day,” Stan admitted. “The way we shot that movie was really interesting because a lot of us didn't get scripts. Some people even got fake scripts.,” Stan recalled, as the Russo brothers confirmed that Tom Holland had not received a script, as he was known to ruin movies. “I remember that day, I showed up and I saidIt was the day I learned that Anthony would become Captain America..” The actor will star in his first film in the next Captain America: Brave New World.
Bucky Barnes Joins the Thunderbolts
His last appearance was in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and now Bucky will team up with a group of anti-heroes and former villains in Lightning*some already introduced in the MCU. The film will star Florence Pugh, who returns as Yelena Belova, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost, Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, with several newcomers including Steven Yeun as the Sentry and Ayo Edebiri in an undisclosed role.
Bucky has been mostly a lone operative for a long time, following orders, and now he gets to play on a larger team of antiheroes. However, Stan believes his character has a lot in common with the others.
After guessing Bucky's line “Who the hell is Bucky” from Captain America: The Winter SoldierStan revealed how Bucky resembles the rest of the Thunderbolts team members. “He's constantly evolving, you know, like the rest of us, I guess. And that's kind of the fun with him now in this new movie. [Thunderbolts*] because he's surrounded by a team of very degenerate antagonists. They're not entirely different from him, I think, in a way,” he explained.
Lightning* will be released in North American theaters on May 2, 2025.
Source: Variety