“It’s become really convenient to pick on [Marvel films],” Sebastian Stan said. “And that’s fine. Everyone’s got an opinion. But they’re a big part of what contributes to this business and allows us to have smaller movies as well. This is an artery traveling through the system of this entire machinery that’s Hollywood. It feeds in so many more ways than people acknowledge.”
“Sometimes I get protective of it because the intention is really fucking good,” Stan added at the time. “It’s just fucking hard to make a good movie over and over again.”
Stan’s Bucky/Winter Soldier will be front and center in next year’s Marvel tentpole “Thunderbolts,” and he hopes the character stays around long enough to meet Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom on the big screen.
“I hope I’m in a scene with him,” Stan says. “Is there any other guy that could pull that off? I don’t know, probably not. After ‘Tropic Thunder,’ is there anything that guy can’t do?”
So there are two parts of this interview that look to be pushed together.
The first being about offering something better, which seems to be more focused on the Martin Scorsese crowd. Which I think is fair criticism. There are many different ways to make movies and there are many different types of films.
The second is can feedback. I’m sure as an actor it’s frustrating to make a film or TV show that perhaps sounds great on paper, but ends up less good that you’d hoped. Now for Sebastian Stan and Bucky, I don’t think his character has suffered this problem yet. Maybe Falcon and the Winter Soldier could have been better, but I think Bucky’s story was told well. However I could see Anthony Mackie getting shit on, or the overall show receiving poor ratings, and him taking it personally. Or the other shows that did end up coming out poorly.