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Before their next new Disney + series, The falcon and the winter soldier Star Anthony Mackie remembers his stay in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Falcon, Sam Wilson’s superhero nickname. Now that he’s one of the brand’s top men, Mackie says, he can help make his productions look a little less uniformly white. “When The falcon and the winter soldier come out, I’m the leader, “Mackie told actor Daveed Diggs during the recent couple Variety Actors in the actor interview. “When Snowpiercer came out, you’re the leader. We have the power and the ability to ask those questions. It really bothered me that I’ve made seven Marvel movies where every producer, every director, every specialist, every costume designer, every personal assistant, every person has been white. “
According to Mackie, who first entered the MCU in 2014 Captain America: The Winter SoldierAlmost as insulting as the lack of behind-the-scenes diversity in most Marvel movies with a largely white cast was realizing Black Panther He had no problem hiring black people for his critical roles. Was the implication, he asks, that those hires weren’t skilled enough to work on the studio’s other blockbusters?
“We have had a black producer; his name was Nate Moore, ” Avengers Endgame The actor remembers. “He produced Black Panther. But then when you do Black PantherYou have a black director, a black producer, a black costume designer, a black choreographer. And I say, that is more racist than anything else. Because if you can only hire blacks for the black movie, are you saying they aren’t good enough when you have a mostly white cast?
According to Mackie, Marvel can at least make changes in the short term by hiring “a new generation of people who can put something on their resume to get other jobs,” a goal he plans to push as an actor of color at the helm of his own series. Concludes The woman in the window Star: “My big drive with Marvel is to hire the best person for the job. Even if that means we are going to get the best two women, we are going to get the best two men. Penalty fee. I agree with those numbers for the next 10 years, because you are starting to build a new generation of people who can put something on your resume to get other jobs. If we have to distribute as a percentage, distribute it. And that is something like leading men that we can go in and lobby for. ”
