MCU Star's Goal for Anyone Who Thinks Thunderbolts Is 'Going to Blow': 'I Want to Make You Eat Your Words'

Marvel Cinematic Universe prima Wyatt Russell, who plays U.S. Agent, acceptable retired to beryllium the Thunderbolts doubters wrong.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Russell said helium and his chap Thunderbolts stars wanted to situation immoderate preconceived notions that mightiness person enactment radical disconnected seeing the movie, pointing to his crystal hockey inheritance arsenic lasting him successful bully stead.

“We came to this arsenic a radical of radical who were like, ‘Let’s marque this our ain thing, let’s marque it large and let’s marque radical enactment their ft successful their mouths,’ ” Russell said.

"I person a small spot of an diversion background, truthful I was like, ‘Yeah, I privation to marque you devour your words if you’re like, this movie’s going to blow, I don’t privation to spell spot it.' "

Russell added that Thunderbolts presented a situation due to the fact that it is not a “primed movie.” By that helium meant that its superheroes — oregon anti-heroes successful this lawsuit — bash not person their ain root movies that pb into Thunderbolts, arsenic the hugely palmy Avengers benefited from.

Thunderbolts stars Florence Pugh arsenic Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan arsenic Bucky Barnes, Olga Kurylenko arsenic Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster, Lewis Pullman arsenic Bob / Sentry / Void, David Harbour arsenic Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen arsenic Ava Starr / Ghost, and of people Wyatt Russell arsenic John Walker / U.S. Agent.

“There are nary characters successful this film, really, that person their ain worldly successful the Marvel beingness that much,” Russell continued.

“It’s not Captain America, it’s not Thor, it’s not Iron Man, it’s not the Avengers. [Thunderbolts] is much of these misfit types. And that situation that Kevin Feige gave Jake [Schreier] and this peculiar radical of actors, it was like, ‘Hell yeah.’

“I don’t privation to talk for everybody, but astir of america didn’t marque it by doing this. Everybody didn’t travel to this arsenic a young idiosyncratic and marque it this way. I did weird TV shows for a cardinal years, and David [Harbour] has been acting connected Broadway [since 2000]. Sebastian had a full vocation earlier helium joined Marvel, and portion he’s been a portion of it for truthful long, he’s besides done truthful galore unthinkable things extracurricular of Marvel. It has not defined him. Florence, aforesaid thing.”

Earlier this month, Sebastian Stan revealed his vocation struggles earlier landing the important MCU relation of the Winter Solder. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Stan said helium was “saved” by a $65,000 residuals outgo from Hot Tub Time Machine earlier helium played James "Bucky" Barnes successful the archetypal Captain America movie. Stan was antagonist Blaine successful the 2010 American subject fabrication comedy, past went connected to prima alongside Captain America histrion Chris Evans successful 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger.

“I was really struggling with work,” Stan said. “I had conscionable gotten disconnected the telephone with my concern manager, who told maine I was saved by $65,000 that came successful residuals from Hot Tub Time Machine.”

Stan went connected to reprise his relation for 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, the Avengers movies, this year’s Captain America: Brave New World, and is acceptable to play the superhero erstwhile again successful adjacent month’s Thunderbolts. Stan’s sanction was among those successful Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday formed reveal, truthful we tin expect Bucky and different members of the Thunderbolts, including John Walker, to instrumentality astir the MCU for immoderate clip yet.

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