Wyatt Russell says John Walker, former Captain America, is a man who has little left to lose on Friday’s final episode The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Spoilers for Episode 5, “Truth.” When he uses the star-studded shield once wielded by Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) to assault Nico (Noah Mills) of the Flag Smashers – revenge on his partner Battlestar (Clé Bennett), who fights KIA against the Super Soldier Serum -mighty Karli 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 exact revenge as the US agent.
“I’m just asking to be heard,” an increasingly frustrated Walker tells the council that fires him as the new Captain America with immediate effect. “I have lived my life according to your mandates! I have dedicated my life to your mandates! I have only done what you asked me to be, what you told me to be and taught me to do, and I did it. did well. “
When sentenced to anything other than an honorable discharge and told that he will not hold rank and receive benefits upon retirement, Walker tells the council, “You built me. Senator, I’m Captain America. ”
Not anymore.
“He only knew one family – and that was the United States military,” Russell said Esquire“He cared and he fought for them and he loved it, but now they took it. They used it, and he feels used and he feels misunderstood. dangerous to do to someone like that who now has Super Soldier Serum in his veins. “
Weeks after viewers first responded to a Walker with a smile and a wink with the hashtag #NotMyCap on social media, Walker is No One’s Cap – a cloak that will finally be taken over by Sam Wilson in the Falcon and Winter Soldier series finale.
Being a Captain America who wasn’t Steve Rogers or Chris Evans was “partly why I liked it,” Russell said of his role in Marvel Studios. “People were going to hate it. I knew it. That’s why you do it. That’s the point. You provoke that reaction and it’s like, Great, it works
“I am the kind of person [where] the gray area is a place to live, “he added.” If you don’t live there, you’re going to have a really hard time in your life figuring out who you are because you have the kind of questions you can ask yourself and ask others … What this character hopefully brings to people is it idea that there is a gray area in him – and that in life there is a gray area around us every day. “
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premieres its sixth and final episode on Friday, April 23 on Disney +.
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