Because the behemoth that’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe grinds on—the franchise spans 5 phases, almost 40 movies, and over a dozen TV sequence—it’s solely pure that we’ve needed to say goodbye to quite a lot of characters alongside the best way. Whether or not they’ve been killed off (Tony Stark, Wanda Maximoff, Natasha Romanov) or their tales appear to have come to a pure conclusion, at the very least for the second (Clint Barton, Scott Lang, actually each Everlasting), a part of each story is its ending. And it looks like we could also be about to achieve that time for one James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes, if solely as a result of the actor who performs him appears fairly able to go do different issues.
Although Sebastian Stan’s Bucky has lengthy been a fan favourite, the MCU has usually struggled to determine what to do with the character, significantly ever because the occasions of Captain America: Civil Conflict. And whereas he’s technically now the pinnacle of the so-called “New Avengers” because of the occasions of Thunderbolts and slated to seem in Avengers: Doomsday, Stan’s current feedback have sparked fear amongst many followers that the actor is perhaps about to hold up his metallic arm for good.
Throughout an look on the “Stronger Podcast,” Stan is complimentary about his time within the MCU, crediting his position throughout seven Marvel movies and a Disney+ sequence with “actually assist[ing]” him develop as each an actor and an individual. However it’s tough to not discover that he repeatedly refers to his time as Bucky up to now tense and sounds extra reflective than anticipatory. Does that imply we’ll be saying farewell to the Winter Soldier in Doomsday? It appears… extra possible than a variety of us would most likely wish to admit.
“I’ve to attempt to provide one thing completely different than earlier than,” Stan mentioned. “And I’ve by no means favored one position over one other. The Marvel stuff, I’ll all the time, until the top of time, [feel it] actually helped me develop as an individual and helped me develop as an actor, and it taught me relationships and [I worked with] Robert Downey [Jr.] and Scarlett [Johansson] and all these individuals I seemed as much as. It was a enterprise. It was a household, and it gave me a way of belonging, and it’s all the time there for that, but it surely was solely the the first step for me.”
