Interview With Marvel’s Winter Soldier

I was invited to the #CaptainAmericaEvent. Costs and expenses for my trip were covered by Disney but all opinions expressed are my own.

I have truly become a big time Captain America fan this last month. After meeting with the some of the cast last month to do interviews, watching a screening and even meeting with the producer and directors, Captain America has a special place in my heart. Just this morning I was shopping for some groceries and seen the clerk at the store with a Batman tshirt on. I walked by her, unzipped my sweatshirt to reveal my Captain America T-shirt. My husband asked why I did I do that. I advised him that Captain America can out beat Batman any day.

While I was on my trip last month to Los Angeles we were also able to grab Sebastian Stan who plays the Winter Soldier in Captain America: The Winter Soldier for a quick interview. For those that haven’t followed along, the Winter Soldier is Captain America’s RIVAL and more. I don’t want to give any spoilers because I want to encourage you to see the movie. Even if you are not a superhero fan, watch the first Captain America movie and see if you like it. Then you will then know if you want to watch the next one that is even BETTER.

Here are some of the great questions we were able to ask Sebastian Stan about his role as the Winter Soldier.

What was your reaction when you found out that you were coming back as a soldier?

Sebastian Stan – I was just saying I always played that moment in my head over and over again, that when I was gunna get that phone call no matter where I was at the time I was probably thinking I was gunna be somewhere in New York you know on a crowded street regardless I was gunna scream and I was just gunna have this big reaction. And um, it’s actually the opposite. I just sort of was quiet and still and was trying to replay the conversation in my head and was just really excited. I mean for me it’d really been two years of sort of not knowing what was gunna happen next.

Talking about the outfit, the training for your part and then working with your metal arm in the movie, was that difficult at all?

Sebastian Stan – Yes the training is really hard for me I mean I was never really used to that type of training before. Some of the diet and the working out that was happening six months before we started shooting was really difficult at times. And then you’re learning to fight it’s basically just like going to dance class. I mean with the person and the thing is you just have to have patience, and it’s really hard, you might get it quickly and you’re excited, you see the stunt guys are just, you know, phenomenal and you just wanna jump in and do it but the whole thing has to be so planned out and detailed, and you can’t have a lot of room for errors because people can get hurt. So, just practicing that and repeating that everyday for about two to three months I’d say was hard, but the results were always very gratifying.

Some of the action sequences that you were a part of, was there one piece that you were just like enjoyed doing?

Sebastian Stan – Well, any of the fighting stuff, once we had it down and we were in the costumes…, any of the stuff that was shot outside which was in Cleveland I mean was really exciting because there was no CGI green screen, I mean it was literally long sequences that all the car explosions, people sort of falling and being shot and then us jumping into that one on one combat—combat, that was all really fun because um, again it was really all happening around you so it’s – and you don’t often get that when you work on these big movies, you always have to deal with the green screen.

What was your most memorable moment while filming?

Sebastian Stan – Probably just any of the stuff that I had with Robert Redford was pretty memorable. That’s where I really remember sort of telling myself you know just like be here, be present, you know, take him in, you know, on and off set, you know. On set it was like suddenly I was in a situation where the whole reason for me going to acting school and everything was sort of here I was with this man and he was being very generous as an actor with me even though he’s obviously who he is. And then off set sort of just wanting to kind of like see if there was anything I could pick his brain about in terms of like people he’s worked with or um, so that was pretty special.

What is your favorite scene to see on the big screen?

I just thought this movie was so different in terms of just um, it felt just so much more realistic in our world than some of the other movies in my opinion. I, you know, and I enjoyed the other movies just as much, but um, I think any of the car chases are really great I felt, that was pretty cool. That whole sequence with Nick Fury um, the one with the Winter Soldier also, those were great sequences. Um, yeah.

These were just some of my favorite questions that we were able to ask. I left out some of the others that might have some spoilers in them. To find out the other fun questions we were able to ask Sebastian Stan, follow the #CaptainAmericaEvent on Twitter for lots of Captain America: The Winter Soldier updates.

To learn more about Sebastian Stan as the Winter Soldier, check out this video below (beware of spoilers):

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