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Director Julius Onah chats with THR at the 'Captain America: Brave New World' premiere and explains what it was like incorporate characters from 'The Incredible Hulk' into his new film. Plus, he expresses his gratitude to the firemen who have kept Los Angeles and the pride he feels to be able to honor them at the premiere.

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00:00You know, it's really great to be here and get to honor the heroes who kept us safe.

00:07I got evacuated, you know, just a month ago as we were putting the last touches on this film,

00:11and we are safe now because of these amazing people, and it's so great to be able to invite

00:16them here and give them a couple of hours to escape from everything and just to say thank you to them.

00:21That's incredible. How is your home and your community?

00:23You know, we're all intact. We're all safe, and, you know, at the end of the day,

00:27that's what's most important, and as much as I wanted to put everything into this movie and we

00:31did, I'm so grateful that, you know, though a lot of people struggled, a lot of people also were able

00:36to stay safe, and it's amazing. We're here tonight for Brave New World. It's been a few years since

00:42we've seen Sam Wilson's kind of hesitant journey of whether or not to fully embrace the title of

00:47Captain America, so where do we find him when things pick up now that he has really taken on

00:51that moniker? We find him as the hero that he's meant to be, you know. This is not him equivocating

00:56about being Captain America. He is Captain America. For me, what was exciting about this

01:01is after you accept that mantle, then how do you define your role as Captain America? This

01:06is a Captain America whose superpowers is empathy, and that's what this movie puts to

01:09the test through an incredible journey that he has with Harrison Ford in the film.

01:13I think one of the most touching and kind of tragic backstories of Falcon and Winter Soldier

01:18was the story of Isaiah Bradley, who seems to have, he's continuing to go through it in

01:23Brave New World. So where do we find him? You know, we find Isaiah Bradley now also accepting

01:28Sam as Captain America. He doubted him. He had questions about whether or not he should take the

01:32mantle. Now he's protective and believing in him, but of course something is afoot in this story,

01:37and Sam now has to go exonerate, clear Isaiah. So Isaiah is brought back to that emotional place,

01:43but what I love so much is Isaiah's love for Sam and desire to protect him, and I think it's

01:48something audiences are going to love too. Whenever there's a new MCU movie, I do my proper homework,

01:53as much as I can. You know, I'm revisiting Falcon and Winter Soldier, and I think this is one of the

01:57first times maybe ever that I've really revisited The Incredible Hulk and had to circle back to that

02:02film. So can you talk to me about kind of incorporating some of those characters and

02:07how that film plays into this one? Well, it was very exciting. You know, obviously we met

02:12Thaddeus Ross for the first time in the MCU in that film. His name was Thunderbolt Ross. This is a

02:17version of him that's a president, and what I love about his journey, it's about him trying to

02:21redefine himself now. He doesn't want to be that belligerent man in the past. He wants to be a man

02:26who is kinder, a man who is trying to bring the world together, and especially a man who's trying

02:31to reconnect with his daughter, Betty. So all that factors into his journey in this film, and the

02:36back and forth between him and Anthony Mackie, both of them now elevated to these incredible symbols,

02:41Captain America and the President of the United States of America. It makes for really intense

02:46drama in this film, and some great action, too.

02:48So exciting. Congrats.

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