Anthony Mackie Really Wanted To Be Cast as Black Panther in the MCU
justjared.comBefore Anthony Mackie was Captain America, and even before Falcon, he had his eyes on playing another Marvel character.
In a new interview with Inverse, the 44-year-old actor revealed that he was so passionate that he actually wrote letters to Marvel about playing Black Panther. “I had been contacting Marvel a lot about Black Panther,” he shared with the outlet. “I had written them letters.
I was trying to find a way to make them make Black Panther. And I wanted to be Black Panther because growing up I fucking loved Black Panther.” Keep reading to find out more… While that role wasn’t for him – it went to the late Chadwick Boseman – Anthony will still never forget the day that he was offered Sam Wilson aka Falcon. “I’ll never forget, Joe Russo said, ‘Listen, so we’re doing this movie.
We want you to be in it. We can’t say what character you’re playing or who else is going to be in it. Would you do it?’” he recalled. “And that was it.
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