- Sebastian Stan shares what Falcon and Winter Soldier costar Anthony Mackie texted him following Avengers: Doomsday‘s cast announcement
- The two last starred together in the Disney+ series in which Mackie becomes the new Captain America
- Thunderbolts* lands in theaters May 2, 2025
Shortly after the star-studded Avengers: Doomsday lineup was announced on March 26, Sebastian Stan received a text from an old Marvel pal.
While speaking at a recent press junket for the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Thunderbolts*, Stan, 42, shared the message he received from his The Falcon and the Winter Soldier costar Anthony Mackie. Mackie portrays Sam Wilson/The Falcon while Stan plays Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier.
“I got a text that went, ‘What’s up player’ and I was like, um ‘Not much. How are you?’ ” Stan said, impersonating Mackie, 46, with a laugh.
“And he was like, ‘When you come in, where are you staying at?’ And I was like, uh, ‘I don’t know yet, Anthony. I don’t have my place yet,’ ” Stan added, saying his costar and friend responded with, “Don’t be like that.”
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The two have co-starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. More recently, they reprised their respective superhero roles in the 2021 Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. At the end of the series, Wilson assumes the role of Captain America from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers following the events of Avengers: Endgame.
When asked recently by Variety if he would appear in Captain America: Brave New World (Stan makes a brief cameo), Stan noted that he has been preoccupied filming Thunderbolts*.
“[Filming] Thunderbolts*, let me tell you, it was a much quieter year for me because I didn’t see Anthony Mackie,” the actor teased. “So, I’ll say that. Although I miss Anthony Mackie like daily, and it’s something I don’t like to admit.”
As for what Stan thinks of his latest Marvel project, the actor also shared with PEOPLE of the Thunderbolts* cast, “I knew that it was gonna be great just because we all got along.”
“You’re putting a new bunch of people together that you haven’t really tested out before. It’s different when you’re bringing people back and you know their strengths together,” Stan said. “But here we sort of had to figure it out and they were open to that.”
The Thunderbolts are comprised of Stan as Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Olga Kurylenko as Antonio Dreykov/Taskmaster and Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent. Julia Louis-Dreyfus also stars as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, the woman who gathers them together.
Thunderbolts* arrives in theaters May 2, 2025.
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