'Avengers: Endgame' Cast Full Roundtable Interview On Stan Lee & More | Entertainment Weekly

I'm Anthony Breznican from Entertainment Weekly and we're here with the Avengers. They were in the

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, the original six Avengers and Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, who is like Nick Fury in real life and that's been said: that's Sam. Sam Jackson. --You bring--but he's dust, so we need you here to help take out--expel the Avengers. --Proud, proud to do that. So, you guys can't talk about Endgame, right? So can you tell me the most outlandish lie you can think of about your character? -Another lightning round? One thing you can guarantee is that Endgame will begin and then end. -At some point it will be.

Keep running: I'm going to have PTSD from this trip. I mean, honestly, it's so stressful... It really is. It's. -You're doing very well, boy. Well, you know everyone, at the end of every day, I lie awake at night and think about all the things I almost said... and I panic. Oh, do you think you feel that way? Tell us, Marcos. How do you feel? You are a repeat offender, Mr. Ruffalo. Not in all educational camps. What's the biggest one you've ever spilled? What happens when you broad

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the first 10 minutes of...? I saw people running up and down the hallway.

What are they doing to Mark anyway? That was the one that made me receive the call from above. He could be heard, that's all they could, he was laughing, so it must be good. Well, he kind of turned on me because when I came to work on Monday everyone ran up to me and I thought they were coming to yell at me, "Barry?" And he hugged me and said, "That was great!" Yes, we get

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press than that. We possibly could have paid for Spoilers. Yes, Barry Curtis, one of our supreme security chiefs at Marvel Studios, who is now immortalized as the successful parking lot security guard in Captain Marvel.

Finally! That's barry. Yes cards, right? There is a cameo in the future. Personally, what has been the biggest change in you since you started working on the Marvel movies? My waist size, yes. Thinner? I do not know now. I haven't checked it. Fluctuating. Leave me like a climate, a lot of people here Children came out like three three of you Older like it didn't affect my waist Anybody like people always ask, what do you bring to your character? Is there any part of the person you play? I think there was a much clearer way of who the character was the first time I played him and then Adam, like a vacation, something different.

You know, little by little he became me. playing and having fun and not. No, I'm not saying I've completely become the character, but there's

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of me in the character now than ever before, I think simply because that's the most honest place you can operate from, especially knowing everyone I feel . I came across personal or personal relationships. I start to echo, you know, and then what you see, the authenticity of you know, I am and Captain America or whatever on the screen. There is a real friendship with Chris and Robert. Then it begins to emerge if we love it enough.

Do you all feel like that, like a part of you or this character? Yes, yes, I say it right. It's impossible not to take a little piece home with you every time you play a role when you're in a certain headspace all day. You can't help but take a little of that home with you. And sometimes you play roles that are really exhausting and can be cave-like and dark. Sometimes you can't wait to get rid of it and other times you can't wait to do it again and that's the fun thing about the role you know in most movies when you're done.

Close the book on that when you move on to this one, you know. You just pause because you know you'll get back to them. And it really is like that in the same way that all of these are friends. The character becomes a friend to you. You are visiting an old friend. How do you feel about that? In a way, you left it all silent whether it remains conscious or not, Kevin, you put us in a position where we live our lives looking into each other's eyes and claiming these moments of great risk and being in trouble together and saving each other. others and Caring about each other.

Then it was as if these six souls became something impossible to explain. Things are getting a little tiring. I think it all comes down to the smallness of our lives. It has been the con

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t in this massive effort and I. I think you know, it's impossible not to feel humiliated by it. Hell, if I have been, then it totally is. These characters have dealt with their past and they've dealt with their destiny, and I think we've seen them over these last ten years as if they've become something

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y realized. people with all their flaws and accept their flaws and really come to see them as they already know.

Strengths and I think that probably reflects a lot of the journeys that we've all had in the past, I mean just being ten years old. of time and growing up and you know, having ups and downs in our lives and sharing our lives with each other, you know, it's been a real pillar of strength and through all kinds of crazy times, and you know, I think that's what the public takes also reacts. that the characters have grown in a way that feels reflected in their own experience. I mean I met this girl yesterday. He was like a Black Widows superfan.

She was amazing and it was like she had seen the first movie with you Yeah, I saw Black Widow for the first time when I was six and now she was, you know, 15 and she was like, "I grew up with you and it's so exciting and you know, I was thinking God, she was a little girl now. She's, you know, a beautiful young woman and you know. She probably also feels that the journey of these characters becoming hers is very much part of her own experience. that's how we have it. On reflection, we also know each other within the characters.

People are so emotionally invested in all these characters, anything you tweet about them or any hint in a trailer that they might be in danger, and like the people will get very angry about it. It's kind of surprising to see if they're all out there, they see themselves and they feel strange, or they feel moving or powerful? What's it like to see that? You become more careful. You have a greater responsibility, but you also see the power of storytelling. You know, the only thing I think is really exciting about these movies is that they lean forward. in the narrative of good versus evil and so we can transcend some of the divisive narratives that are happening now.

I mean, the only thing is that these stories speak to a lot of different types of people with different types. of belief and I really believe that and everyone is coming together for each other. Although it's about making it worth it. Right and it's about, you know, the people who have you, the civil wars, it's the best example of that, you know. And I always look. to them now And I always feel like somehow we're always one or two steps ahead of the political scene, yeah, and you know, and the bad guys win sometimes, yeah, you know, and we lose good people and II, unless that you lose sometimes.

You don't value winning and winning means nothing. That's true and I feel like that's been this final journey towards our end game. Like, oh my god, dangerous means it's a redemptive act that happens in real time. I think you're back to square one now. It remains unread in your legend, on the right. Just hanging out. Cover it now. Well, scarlet, the last time we had them all together. We were talking about Black Widow and the lack of female superheroes. What role do you think Natasha and Black Widow have played in changing the way people look at heroines?

I don't know. That is a good question. I don't know if I have a

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perspective on it, but you know the character has certainly grown in a way that we've seen her. You know, I think Fabri was a little offended when I called her a sexy second secretary. He was like she was undercover. Um, like she's okay. Yeah. That was definitely true, you know, I think she, you know, through the Avengers and then certainly with Winter Soldier had the opportunity to become a woman, who noticed? Oh no. You know, I haven't really made any active decisions in my life and I was really and I was coming to terms with a shield like you know, Disintegrated and certainly now after the Civil War with the Avengers, you know they're nice too. of disintegrating and being in all these different places and each one has her own reaction to her becoming a woman saying oh, I actually like it.

Who am I? and Where is my you know like what I want? And what do I need? coming out of my relationships and also myself and she is someone who is under

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ding her own self-worth and that is such a powerful journey that anyone can watch anyone take, but certainly seeing a woman on screen portrayed in that way as a flawed superhero with kind of, you know, kind of a gray moral compass coming to terms with what happened to her and what happened again, you know, the course of these movies ends obviously ultimately with this

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and I think which in a pretty shocking way, but you know, It's definitely, I think you know you showed some kind of path for these other female superheroes to be able to walk down.

I certainly don't take credit for it in that way, but you played a role, there was a time. Not long ago there was a belief that there could not be a female superhero protagonist. Yeah, not because of this guy, by the way. No, I know, but that was standard industry thinking, and if it was, it was strictly sexualized. Well, the secretary with skills. Yes, exactly. So I think Black Widow helped change it a lot and change the way people looked. Yeah, honestly, you know, I think Joss was a big part of that too. He's just a big believer in strong female characters and stories and he really celebrated the characters' flaws and wanted to bring them to light.

I say flaws, you know, not really, but she senses them and you know. That was simply it. Having her support and knowing that he wants to shed light on that character really made a big difference. So, you know that part of the journey is the end. This year we said goodbye to Stanley after a long life. And do you have any touching memories of him or stories of meeting him? I know he didn't always film his cameos with you guys around, but did they if you all had an encounter with Stan Lee? I'm going to make this joke again.

I love it. I'll act like I've already done it. Playing the Hulk is like my generation's Hamlet. We are all going to have a chance. So, you know, I was very nervous about whether I would please him and I didn't see that I didn't meet him until the Avengers premiere and I kind of approached him. him. She saw it. He said, "Hey, and he said, 'You got it, kid.' That's awesome, thank you sir, you know, but he was really nervous about it. Aside from being depressed, he and Kevin were so nervous that he would do it." .Be happy with what I've done.

And you, Robert, at the first Ironman? Is that when you first met him? Yes, my time is going to a Civil War. and he's like a UPS guy or a FedEx guy. So he was out of the glass and It was just like, you know, it's like all of us are really important. But he's just another monk. coverage on the can, and like emerald sound. It's like I had a delivery photo. Nice tank. And then, cool after that, I thought it's not just my memory through the glass. I'm also exactly like him, everything goes downhill after that, when you have to capture before.

I think you're right, actually taking two is my strong team, but should we stop after one? And he guided him back to his changed self. I also had a similar moment when I saw it, I think it was after Iron Man 2 came out and I didn't know how the audience or anyone would react to this. the beloved character and my interpretation of her, especially since I wasn't originally

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and I also had a lot of feelings about it, but yes, I had a lot of feelings about it and I also saw it in the theater. and he was very excited and I, of course, felt a huge sigh of relief after that, you know.

He was just very happy with it. You know, but he got to see that character on the screen and it was nice. Brilliant. You must have many memories of him. Well, yes, many. The amazing thing is that, as you all have said, he said the right thing to the right person every time. Yes, every interaction. That was one's dream interaction with Stanley. He made it happen every time I spoke before he left me a voicemail once in 2004 or so. I never received a voicemail from Stanley. I kept it for years until I think the phone disintegrated, but it was the brave Feige Stanley.

I couldn't listen to it over and over again. And that's how he always was and always supported me. We've created a video that I think I'm not sure when we'll post it. Probably in the home video window, but it's Baha'i, we've never done this before. a behind the scenes of every cameo and all the additional material that was filmed and his monologues there and you know, his passing was very emotional for all of us, but suddenly it all came back to me last week when I saw it. Istremendous and you know he was outside Disney Hall that first time and Tony reeked of FedEx and took out the eliminated kami in the first cameo.

He did it in Avengers when you're on tour in the cafe. Yes. Yes. Yes, look, I was going back to Fantastic Four III. Yes, the first time I met him was in 2004 when I was doing Johnny Storm, and yes, the day he was on set. We actually had a b-roll crew on set that day for some reason and one of my first interactions with it is all on footage and I found the footage. At the time he was, you know, I was very early in my career, as the biggest role I had ever played for me, someone like him was so overwhelming for me. and he was so, you know, the true San Lien format, you know, so full of life and so kind and Garius and he just made me feel at home.

And yeah, we have the whole exchange filmed somewhere and it's just That's what I tell the story and the story is actually of the Fantastic Four one in Toronto when he came to do his cameo and suddenly you couldn't find the crew like Stan was getting ready on the road and you look around and you were downtown and half the team was gone and I was what and The ad said everyone ran to the comic book store in Queens Whatever to buy comics for him to sign, he most certainly walked in, shot it, and then signed it.

And that was kind of the beginning of what I call the national holiday whenever you can. He talks about how this was his ultimate vision of having all this stuff up there on the screen, or, I mean, was it always like that? How sociable and taking credit and I should have more of a role. He was very humble and always talked about how well I felt. It was that this at all Yes it became that big and until the last time I saw it. All I'd like to do is talk about him creating the characters and how amazing it was to co-create all these legends, these icons. and he would go.

Yes. Yes, but cameos Don't cut the curtain on a comic about you, Jeremy. I aspire to be so strong. The boy has lived an incredible life and is still always with me because I spent a lot of time with him. more recently and you know when you're so full of life. Sure, and when you spend time with him, you know that this guy is just burning in the fire of life. He has a great sense of humor, an intelligent mind and you know, I hope and aspire to be anywhere half as good as he would be as a man.

Good? He's really really fantastic. I really enjoyed my time with him. Well, I like you, Chris. Um, just for a kind of childlike wonder and attitude and enthusiasm, you know. There's something that every time he comes to set with all these are the stories you hear about him. You know, you would want to talk. more like, well, do you know what that all means? And so it was like now, I'm just telling stories that were having fun in this

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and yes, there is a deeper meaning and a message and so on. He managed it so beautifully, but the childlike nature in him.

Oh, I thought well, you did well. We can all stay big kids forever You know, he's the perfect one So some movies come and go and disappear in a week these movies have lasted 10 years I think the last 30 Beyond what you want people to see in these movies inside 30 years old. What do you want them to feel? What do you hope they think of them? I mean, I'm always amazed at Kevin's ability to host this. Yes, this giant tapestry of all these woven plots. I don't think that's ever going to happen. I don't think anyone has the ability to launch all these different rockets and then, like years later, have them all explode at once. planning and care and subtlety.

It's just a clogged raffia Yeah, it's just that I just don't know if it'll happen again And I feel so proud that I can have a small part of this Yeah, I wonder what the ripple effect of this will be. 15 30 years ago I like look what you know the bags do. How do you like a movie series? 22 movies, I hope they are still around, how do you do that? I'm saying I absolutely absolutely could guarantee that I mean, it's impossible, no, that's very true, I mean, like if you think, it's like Star Wars, I mean, right link, yeah, impossible, but they're not, but there's no. no kind of Bond.

It has no continuity, it is a very constant reinvention. Yes, Star Wars has a similar continuity. But that was a great start and stop. All of this took place in a finite amount of time and that finite amount of time is a decade that is not. even a snuggie, that's Kate, yeah, and she managed to make this incredible tape, you know, following in the footsteps of what Stan, Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby were doing when it was a little group of them in a bullpen. in Manhattan and having fun and we've been a relatively small group of us at Marvel Studios for a decade or more and the advantage we have is that we have real people who can inhabit these characters and then the audience falls in love within a minute.

I love it and what's fun for me in the end is that I'm intimidated by actors. I'm intimidated by their ability to do what they do because I have these cameras on me and I'm shuffling and I can do it. I don't like it, it's a completely different species, almost like another species, and when they're in costume I feel intimidated because I'm standing in front of these superheroes that I've been dreaming about, so it takes me away. about 10 years People as people and these six in particular and Starting to talk to them creatively and like everyone has gotten a stronger and stronger voice in how the characters, even from the beginning, but certainly as the movies have continued. and how movies are made And then I could talk because if we're going to talk about the story, talk about the movies.

Well, well, that's a language that I can understand on that creative level and that happened with everyone that was sitting here and it is and has been you know the pleasure of my life with these six and particularly. Are you really? You're not going to like this. I have realized it over time, even in the last few days. Look, look Kevin in the eyes. He looks at us with love, like a proud father. Again, like you're worried, like it's DEFCON five. It truly has been your labor of love. You look at him like a conscientious father and now I see fear in your eyes.

But I love what I just saw. I was seeing that there is love in your eyes and in your heart for all of this and for all of us and for me. I think you have simply loved us. Yeah, no, I don't have any, you know. I regret it creatively, I regret that we didn't have more time together at tables and stuff. Maybe when we start to throw it away and thank you for everything for bringing them together. Sure enough, for the last episode of Star Trek The Next Generation, Card sits down with his team at their

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poker game and he said and they said, "Oh, and he doesn't." I didn't attend the poker games.

Why am I talking about Star Trek? And the crew is always sitting there and they're like, "Oh, captain, everything's fine," and they're like, yeah, I'm doing something I should have done a long time ago and I wouldn't be playing poker with this team. It would be amazing and me. It would be terrible to have awesome luggage in The Avenger game, but it's something I should have done a long time ago. Well, more time. We thank you very much for the journey of the Avengers, ah The Avengers a bit. It was the first and only trip I went on the entire press tour and it was an incredible experience and I learned, "This is hard work, glamorous hotels." Oh, first place.

No. No, it's hot. It's hard, non-stop work and I've appreciated it ever since, but there was one night in Rome. Very feminine. I survived that like this Where we also wanted and we talked a lot about the future and we talked a lot about what could happen if the came now Here we are and everyone wants to stay in this, but it's yes. They're going to snap their fingers and spin. I'll go to pieces in a second. Thank you so much.