Sebastian Stan Didn’t Invite Anthony Mackie To Bucky Barnes’ 106 Birthday
In a hilarious offscreen moment, Anthony Mackie chides Sebastian Stan for not inviting him to Bucky Barnes’s 106th birthday party. The two actors are the stars of the newest MCU series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the first episode of which dropped today on Disney+.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier takes place in the wake of the events of Avengers: Endgame, finding Mackie’s The Falcon/Sam Wilson and Stan’s Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes characters being heroic once again. However, both titular characters must also deal with both the responsibility and the grief left behind by their dear friend Captain America. In Bucky’s case, Captain America was his oldest and closest friend until he was captured and experimented on by the authoritarian organization HYDRA. HYDRA weaponized Bucky to carry out assassinations and put him in cryogenic stasis in between jobs, allowing him to live for decades longer than what is natural.
In a recent interview with EW to promote The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, the reporter followed up on a tidbit from a previous interview in which Stan stated that he held a 106th birthday party in Prague for Bucky. When asked about the party, Mackie hilariously chimed in, “look, vintage Sebastian Stan, it entailed not inviting Anthony Mackie.” The two laughed as Stan explained that the show was all about Bucky: “it was Bucky Barnes takes Europe.” Mackie then jokingly avowed that he is going to have a birthday party for his character, Sam Wilson, and Stan isn’t invited.
This funny sarcastic banter between the two stars of the show is actually what led to the show’s creation in the first place. Their onscreen counterparts have a strong love-hate relationship that results in hilarious moments much like the ones we get from them offscreen. To ensure that the comedic chemistry between the two actors wasn’t lost onscreen, the director of the show, Kari Skogland, said that she and the writers watched all of the press interviews from other MCU movies to really examine their comedic relationship.
Stan and Mackie are longtime fan favorites, their real-life funny jabs at each other and other co-stars making some of their press junkets the most viewed. Fans have even gone so far as to make compilation videos of their best offscreen moments. Although Mackie and Stan might not be invited to each other’s birthday parties, they have been invited into everyone’s homes with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which is sure not to disappoint if the onscreen chemistry matches their offscreen relationship.
Source: EW
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