– Star on Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford ‘Captain America: A Brave New World’ that opens on February 14 in Cinemas
On February 14 it reaches theaters ‘Captain America: Brave New World ‘the first film in which Anthony Mackie Take the witness of Chris Evans as the emblematic superhero and also involves the debut in the Marvel film universe of Harrison Ford which gives life to the newly elected president of the United States Thaddeus E. ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross. In the film, directed Julius Onah “ Danny Ramírez.
“It is very disappointing, I thought we had already overcome all this, that we had left it in the past, that we were going to change laws and find a way to naturalize and make Latinos who are already there that they stay“, says Ramírez in an interview with Europa Press when referring to the harsh images that arrive these days from the US Mass deportations of immigrants ordered by Donald Trump.
And although both Mackie and Ramírez remember that The film is based on the comics and wrote years before Trump returned to the White House And, therefore, any parallelism is “casual”, the truth is that Marvel’s film comes in a convulsed political and social context in which the readings related to today are practically inevitable.
“We always want to move forward in the social, in the laws, and with all this it seems that we are going backwards“, reflects the actor, born in Chicago and raised in Miami but who, as the Latin son of immigrants, his mother is Mexican and his Colombian father, feels truly surprised by Haya” many Latinos “supporting the immigration policy of the current US president.
“What makes me very strange is that there are many Latinos who are in the other line, who think so, that is what we have to do. That confuses me, my heart breaks And I hope that, obviously, that people speak and that we can, with effort and with our voice, change what is happening, “reflects the actor who warns that it is still early to calibrate the” impact “that this measure against immigration He will have not only in the economic field, but also in the “humanitarian“.
Ramírez, who debuted at the UCM in 2021 within the series ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’and that has participated in other Hollywood productions such as the saga ‘The Walking Dead’ o ‘Top Gun: Maverick’is part of the increasingly large group of Marvel Latin superheroes next to the Namor de Tenoch Huerta, La Ajak de Salma Hayek, Oscar’s knight of Oscar Isaac or the America Chavez de Xochitl Gomez.
“For me, personally, it has been not a dream made, because I never thought it would be possible to be a superhero. Every day I get up with a lot of energy because I know it is something special for our community. And I wonder what can I do with this? What stories can I help finance or whatever this has an impact? “Reflects the actor who has” faith “that these characters in this type of blockbusters are”The first steps to change Latin American cinema at the international level. “
“At this time we are living right now, and this connects with the movie, all We are looking for symbols and people to give us faith … We are looking for heroesHeroes in real life, “says the actor who sees” very difficult “not to find parallels in the plot of ‘Captain America: Brave New World’, who addresses the beginning of a presidential mandate in a context of conflict and international tension and tension .But what fascinates me is that it is something that happens organically because in comics, which are written much earlier, it is similar what happens. And obviously, there are things that can be bought, “he says.
This is not a movie about current America
Less open to comparisons between today and Harrison Ford’s character, a hard -hand president and drastic measures that ends up even becoming an angry red monster -the mythical ‘Red Hulk’ Of the marvelite staples-, the protagonist of the film is shown. Mackie also emphasizes that when this film was written, which has faced several delays, script rewritures and the inevitable ‘reshoots’ to shoot new footage, Joe Biden was the president of the United States.
“No, it’s completely different. Because when we did this film two years ago, it was a very different moment. Joe Biden was our president. So the film is not so much a reflection or a comparison with the times that we live today, but it only comes to point out how good they are in Marvel when taking aspects of contemporary culture and introducing them into the history of the comic and of what their characters live and how they behave, “says the actor who has been incarnated to Sam Wilson in the UCM who insists that the idea was never” to look at a political status in America and make a film about that, Because we did it two years ago. ”
On the other hand, Mackie believes that the great reading that leaves the fourth installment of the saga ‘Captain America’, the first one that stars after definitively assuming the superhero mantle after the events reported in the series ‘Falcon and the winter soldier’ is The need to “Recognize and accept” the different positions of the other to reach an agreement.
“With Ross being who he is, and with Sam Wilson being who he is, and with all the story they have in the past, they still have the ability to join and forgive each other, and really work to achieve a better relationship. It is not so much about Do it in my way or yours, or that you have to do only what I say. It’s about listening to the other person and making concessions to what the other feels and thinks, instead of imposing your will “says. An ability to accept the other and reach a consensus that, underlines Mackie, is “very necessary” in the times.