Today, you would assume that a new Marvel role comes with the weight of expectations, so when I had an opportunity to interview Wyatt Russell, Erin Kellyman and Amy Aquino about their casting in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, they opened up about that pressure.
These are starving artists, after all, and comic book movies back in those days weren’t genre-defining event pictures, like they are now.
Back when Jon Favreau was mounting a production of Iron Man, or Kenneth Branagh was figuring out how to do Thor on the big screen, a part in a Marvel Studios movie probably felt like “the next gig.”