00:00Anthony, how does it feel coming back as Sam Wilson and what have you learned from your character?
00:08I couldn't be more excited to, you know, play Sam Wilson again. It's funny,
00:13you know, over the course of 10 years most actors don't get the opportunity to play the same
00:18character and watch that character evolve film to film to where Sam has grown to as Captain America
00:26and it's just, it's really an honor. It becomes like a something I look forward to and a staple
00:32in my resume every time I get to go back to a Marvel movie and bring Sam Wilson back.
00:39And, you know, I've learned a lot from Sam but the biggest thing is empathy, you know,
00:46it's talking less and listening more and really being open-minded and open-hearted
00:53to another person's trials and struggles and, you know, being selfless. Like if you look at
00:59Sam Wilson, he's truly a selfless, loving, caring humanitarian and that's something that
01:07I didn't really recognize in myself until I started playing this character.
01:13Anthony, how would you describe Sam Wilson and Joaquin Torres' relationship?
01:19Well, it all started, it all started a mission long ago. We're a young and eager,
01:29happy-go-lucky, wanting to prove himself. A guy named Joaquin met his hero Sam Wilson
01:36doing a badass mission and, no, I think the relationship has gone from mentor-mentee
01:44and built through, one, earning it and proving that Joaquin had his heart in the right place
01:50and is trying to be a hero and a human being in the right way where I think I saw this in,
01:57one, Anthony but also in Sam Wilson seeing Joaquin and me that we love what we do and
02:07in having a kindred spirit that like sees the world and what it could be for the positive ways,
02:12I think the relationship has developed into something deeper. It's been,
02:16feels more like a brotherhood now. Even when we're here on press, I think those characters,
02:20not only do they, it goes in and out of the movie where we're cracking jokes left and right and I
02:26think we've grown closer to each other because we have a respect for the same things and we cherish
02:34and uphold them in the same way that I think Joaquin and Sam do. And so that relationship,
02:40I think, is one of brotherhood and, but that dynamic of mentor-mentee stays there
02:45because there's still so much I can learn from Sam and Anthony.
02:51Anthony, how was working with Harrison Ford?
02:55Harrison was great. I mean, every day he came to set, there was a bond and an understanding.
03:03There was a playfulness that was really beautiful to see, especially with somebody at his
03:09stature in the industry. I've never had an experience like that with a star of his caliber
03:15really coming in and joining into the ensemble and being a part of the group. And he was really
03:21the glue of the morale for the cast. Every time something would waver, every time somebody would
03:26get tired or every time something wouldn't go right, Harrison was the one who pulled the group
03:30back together. So he was the best co-star we could have asked for.
03:36Pete, how did you prepare for the physical and emotional aspects of your character?
03:44Well, the physical was kind of straightforward in regards to,
03:48I was like, here I have a company that's willing to pay for my training and my diet. And so I was
03:55like, let's live the dream of living the athlete's lifestyle. And so through the three months of prep,
04:01it was two-a-days, it was meals without salt. It was a really rigorous plan that I enjoyed because
04:09I was like, oh, this is what it would be like if I was in the league. And so that was the physical
04:13element. The emotional was, I think, it was tied to, at the current times, I was processing what
04:22responsibility was like. And it just so happens that this film itself, it deals with that
04:27thematically outright in the way that it allowed me to really sit and understand, one, this process
04:35of maturing into a young man that has more responsibility and wants it. I think it's a
04:42transition from being a boy to a man. There's a process where you skirt by responsibility,
04:48and you move through all that in a way that if no one holds you accountable, you can stay there.
04:53And so having done other roles where this is a place to sit and meditate, this one,
04:59quite literally, thematically, there's a place to really process that. And watching
05:06all these mantles being passed, right? So watching Sam turn into Captain America and Joaquin being
05:11given the wings, this motif is physicalized. And that approach to responsibility was something
05:18that I just got to work through emotionally and see why I loved it and why I don't. And
05:25yeah, the preparation was just sitting there and thinking about previous generations of my
05:31family and other people I knew and how they dealt with it, and ideally how I'd like to deal with it.
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