Wyatt Russell says John Walker, the former America captain, is a man with little to lose in Friday’s series finale The hawk and the winter soldier. Spoilers for episode 5, “Truth”. When he uses the shield starred by Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) to brutalize Nico (Noah Mills) of the Flag Smashers, revenge for his partner Battlestar (Clé Bennett), which KIA fights against serpent-superhero Karli, authorized in serum. Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman) – Walker is stripped of his title and authority as Captain America. With the blood-stained shield stolen from him by Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Walker forges his own shield that he will use to dispense revenge as a U.S. agent.
“I just ask that they make me listen,” says an increasingly frustrated Walker on the board who removes him as the new Captain America, effective immediately. “I lived my life according to your mandates! I dedicated my life to your mandates! I only did what you asked me to do, what you told me and trained me, and I did it. And I did it right. “
When he is sentenced to a discharge that is not honorable and tells him that he will have no rank in retirement and that he will not receive any benefit, Walker tells the council, “You built me. Senator, I am Captain America.”
Not anymore.
“He only knew one family, and that was the U.S. Army,” Russell said Esquire. “He cared, he fought for them and they loved him, but now they’ve taken him. They’ve used him, he feels used to it and he doesn’t feel understood. Now everyone has turned their backs on him, which is very dangerous. do it with a person like this who now has Super Soldier serum in his veins. “
Weeks after viewers first reacted to a smiling, winking Walker with the hashtag #NotMyCap on social media, Walker is Nobody’s Head, a mantle that will eventually be adopted by Sam Wilson in the Falcon and winter soldier end of the series.
Being an American captain other than Steve Rogers or Chris Evans was “partly why I liked him,” Russell said of his role at Marvel Studios. “People would hate it. I knew it. That’s why you do it. That’s the point. You provoke that response and it’s like, Great, it’s working. “
“I’m the kind of person [where] the gray area is a place where you have to live, “he added.” If you don’t live there, you will have a very difficult time in your life trying to figure out who you are, because you limit the kind of questions you can ask yourself and others … What we hope this character brings to people is the idea that there is a gray area, and that in life, every day there is a gray area around us. “
The hawk and the winter soldier will premiere its sixth and final episode on Friday, April 23 at Disney +.
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