00:00I am so excited to see this movie, and you've made me a believer of U.S. Agent, which is something I didn't think had happened.
00:05Oh, good.
00:06I'm curious, did your training for hockey help your physicality wielding the shield?
00:11Um, maybe a little bit. I mean, I've been so far removed from hockey now, it's like any muscle memory that I had from that is pretty much gone.
00:22But yeah, there was some physicality that I think helps, anything with sports, like it helps, but we talked a lot about my stunt performer, Justin Eaton, my stunt double, of just carrying himself and how he would do that, and it always was like bull in a china shop, and I did reflect a lot on, like, a couple of the people that I played with that will remain nameless, of how they, like, conduct themselves on the ice.
00:46So, Milan Lucic is one of them.
00:48Name, name, name, name.
00:49Yeah, Luc, Luc, I didn't, you're in there.
00:53As part of him, but yeah, so yeah, I did call on some of my past, you know.
00:57Because I like that the vigilante element gets played up, and what a hero is, and all that with U.S. Agent in the comics, as well as in what we've seen so far, but the character really feels like he gets a spotlight to redeem himself with some mental health awareness and all those things here.
01:08When you first got the script, was there a moment, without saying what it was, that you were like, this is a thing I've been really wanting to express out of this character?
01:16In this film particularly?
01:17In this film particularly, yeah.
01:18Yeah, I like the idea that, you know, vulnerability is something that, again, in my old life, it's not something that, you know, when I was playing back, you know, it's 20 years ago.
01:28But when I was playing hockey, you didn't like to express yourself vulnerably because that was a crack.
01:35Crack in the armor meant that, well, even if your coach took it well, well, now he knows you're not feeling good, or now he knows you're doubting yourself.
01:41And, like, any bad thing that happens, you can be looked at very differently than if you're just like, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, fake it until I make it.
01:49And you can do that, and it doesn't not always, it doesn't always not work.
01:54But the reality is, is you're not going to become a better, fully realized version of yourself until you can admit your shortcomings.
01:59So, that was fun to play, and it was fun to play his, sort of, cracks in, with his vulnerability in humor.
02:07And that was fun for me to be able to do.
02:09So, I hope that it brings some of that to the movie, and, again, I love, love, love doing it.
02:15And where he ends up is someone that can, like, take a hint, is what I've been saying.
02:19Last question for you.
02:20There's a lot of people that work in the MCU, but there's not a lot of legacy actors, and both you and your dad get to share this joy.
02:25Yeah.
02:25Is there a phone call when you're like, oh, we're doing this thing and this thing?
02:28Like, it feels, especially him playing such a dad, like, he goes, the dad of the world.
02:32What's that like when Thanksgiving rolls around?
02:33Do you guys talk about the MCU wins?
02:35No.
02:36Fair.
02:37We don't.
02:38But he always loves, like I said, when you have kids, all you want them to do is be happy.
02:43You want them to live a fulfilled life.
02:45And that's all my dad has ever cared about or talked about when it comes to movies is, how are you feeling?
02:51Do you like what you're doing?
02:52And, you know, it gives his opinion about certain things, but there's no, like, advice.
02:58It's just, like, hoping, I think, that your children are happy.
03:02That's beautiful, man.
03:03I really appreciate working this character.
03:05I'm so excited for this.
03:05It's great.
03:06You're going to love it.
03:06Thank you, man.
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