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RYAN FLECK: And action.

Trust me, true believer.

STAN LEE: Not only
did I not think

I would be doing a cameo
in such a big movie,

I never dreamt
there'd be such a big movie.

In those days, I was writing those books.

I was hoping they'd sell
so I wouldn't lose my job

and I could keep paying the rent.

All of a sudden,

these characters
have become world-famous.

They're the subject
of blockbuster movies,

and I'm lucky enough
to get little cameos in them.

CREW MEMBER: E, mark.

JON FAVREAU: Okay.
And background action. Action.

LEE: They decided
any scene with Bob and me...

Remember me? Sure don't.

LEE: had to be
a sure crowd-pleaser.

TONY: You look great, Hef.

Cut.

Ladies and gentlemen,
that's a camera wrap

on the creator of Iron Man,
Mr. Stan Lee.

LEE: We are so lucky.

Robert Downey Jr.
Playing this role.

I was born under a lucky
star, I gotta tell you.

And to be in a scene with
him, brief as it was,

and I'll talk to them about that later,

it was a joy, really a joy.

I just love doing cameos,

because first of all,

there's no real responsibility.

We arrive at the place
where they're shooting.

The director says,
"Go to wardrobe, go to makeup."

When I'm all finished,
"Okay. Here's your line."

That's Captain America?

I thought he'd be taller.

I'd like to start with the line

that might have been put to you, sir,

which was,
"Did it work?"

LEE: I'm a very good study.

I can remember a whole line

after reading it three or four times.

Did it work?

And action.

Superheroes?

In New York? Give me a break.

I mean, I say a line or two

if I'm lucky enough to get a line.

Sometimes it's just pantomime.

REPORTER 1: Larry King. REPORTER 2: Larry!

And there I am on the screen

and I'm a big ham, so I love it.

Oh, man.

I am so fired.

I like them all. I mean, as I think
of them, each one is my favorite.

PEYTON REED: And shrink!

Well, the '60s were fun,
but now I'm paying for it.

REED: And cut it.

And I love being in the theater

and having somebody next to me,

"Oh, look! That's Stan Lee!"

I get a big kick out of that.

You know what?
I think I'll just take these,

bring them over here,

and hold on for safekeeping.

Are you Tony Stank?

Oh, man. Anyway,
before I was so rudely interrupted...

At that time,
I was a Federal Express man.

I'm trying to tie
the Marvel Universe together

by being the one common
denominator that they all have.

What's the matter with you kids?

You've never seen a spaceship before?

My cameos are always fun,

especially when I do one with Thor.

I play a barber and I'm about to cut his hair.

Touch something and then the
whole thing's gonna come to life.

Okay. Good.Yeah.

No!

Yes!

TAIKA WAITITI: Good.

Hey, you guys, make love not war.

Each one stands out
more than the previous one.

This is one of the best cameos
I've done, let me tell you.

LUIS: Look at the girl I'm with.
You know what I'm saying?

She's crazy stupid fine,
right? You go, "Yeah."

Yeah.
Crazy stupid fine.

It's so fun when you show up in the films.
It's really neat.

Well, it's great.
I love it.

I mean, people are so nice.

Great to see you. Hey, brother.
How you doing?

All right. Great to see you.

KEVIN FEIGE: Have a safe trip
down to Atlanta.

The fact that I'm working with
characters that I've created...

Not too shabby.

By the crimson rings of Cyttorak,

it's Doctor Strange!

And the fact that they are
being directed so beautifully...

"I'll need a ride home." Why don't you try that?

"I'll need a ride home."

LEE: to work
with such professionals

and they all have
a love of the characters.

Chris Evans came over to me
like I'm his father.

He is so happy
to be doing what he's doing.

He's so happy to be
Captain America, you know?

See, nobody's going to recognize
you, 'cause they...

They're expecting
to see this little guy. They're expecting this big.

Hey, glad to see you, Chris.

Yeah. How are you?

Hey, congratulations on the twins.

Thanks, buddy. Hey, that's terrific.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH:
Yes. It's fun. So you say something first.

I say, uh, "It's aged for a
thousand years in barrels"

"built from the wreck of Grunhel's Fleet."

"It's not meant
for mortal men."

And then that's you.

What the hell did you just say?

This is not meant for mortal men.

STAN: Neither was
Omaha Beach, blondie.

Stop trying to scare us.
Come on.

I don't think of them as cameos.

All right.

I rather think of it as a
supporting role that I play.

Excelsior.

JOSS WHEDON: And cut. CREW MEMBER: Cut there.

WHEDON: And cut it.

Stan Lee. The whole
reason any of this exists.

My hero.
The greatest man alive.

Thank you for everything.

We should all be grateful.
I know we're all honored.

And Stan,
thank you so much for being here.

It is our absolute pleasure

and forgive us if there's lots of
handshakes and autographs now...

LEE: I sometimes wonder, "Did this really all happen?"

It's an honor
to have you. Thank you.

Thanks a lot.

LEE: In the days
I was writing these things,

I never thought it would turn into something like this.

Thank you very much.
Thank you.

This is just unbelievable.

It's indescribable.

To work with creative people,

especially people who make
movies, is such a thrill.

It's overwhelming when I think about it.

And I keep saying to myself,
"I can't believe this is me."

"I can't believe
I lucked out this way."

Let's give it up for Stan Lee, guys.

CHRIS EVANS: Whoo-hoo! Yeah!

Five lousy words they gave me to say.

Thank you, too.
You're a great director.

It's something you never forget.

And thank you for all of this

and I hope that I didn't set
interviewing back a few decades.

Okay.
I'll see you later.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

I remember every cameo I've
done since the first one.

And I think I'm a very lucky guy.

KEVIN FEIGE: The journey of the
entire Marvel Cinematic Universe

started with the journey of Tony Stark.

MAN: Much better
than the big old... ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: Oh, yeah.

Clunky, clunky monkey. And that sound is great.

I think it looks a little large, too,

but I think we might be able
to get away with it all.

FEIGE: Going back to Favreau
and Robert Downey Jr.

And the founding moments
of Marvel Studios,

we said, "We want the hero to be
as interesting out of costume"

"as they are in costume."

SARAH HALLEY FINN: I had just been
hired to cast the first Iron Man.

Jon Favreau was on board at that time

and I remember asking him

in a meeting with everyone,

"Tell me all the qualities"

"that you think
are most important."

Fast, quick-witted and funny and dynamic

and a bit troubled and confident

and brilliant and all of these things.

And we really kept coming back to Downey.

DOWNEY JR.: Stan Lee said he
kind of created him on a dare.

Could you make a billionaire
weapons manufacturer,

philandering philanthropist, you know,

who largely lives an ugly and
irresponsible immoral psychology?

To peace!

If you look at Downey
in his early work, you know,

it's amazing. I mean,
look at Chaplin.

You look atLess Than Zero.

I mean, they're tough
characters to watch.

Robert Downey Jr.
At that point in his career

wasn't necessarily
a family-friendly name.

Today it's ridiculous, but at the time,

it was, "Whoa! Risky casting
Robert Downey Jr."

The truth was we got to a point

that we realized if we didn't cast him,

that would have been the biggest risk.

JON FAVREAU: Robert had a whole
career of great work behind him,

and he was at a point
in his life and his career

where he was ready to break out

and do something really big and exciting.

FINN: Jon was in love with the
idea of Downey playing the part,

and we all felt so sure about
him on a creative level.

Because he wasn't instantly
a slam dunk approval,

I suggested we have screen tests.

I remember walking in with Robert
Downey Jr. the day of the tests.

He was laughing and in great
spirits and completely at ease,

and he got in front of the camera
and started saying the lines.

I assure you the day weapons are
no longer needed to keep the peace,

I'll happily transition to
manufacturing bricks and beams

for baby hospitals,
making hemp pants and the like,

but until that time,
can I get you a drink?

I don't want to call it
an out-of-body experience,

but it was one of those rushes

that I'm sure, like, somebody
would feel if they're about to play

a big sporting arena,

playing for the ring
or something like that.

It was just like, "Am I gonna
pass out or am I gonna nail this?"

On that day that Robert screen tested,

it was clear that there was no
one else who can play that part.

It was magic. It was exactly the
feeling as a casting director,

with Kevin, with Jon, with everyone

that we all wanted
to have that feeling, like,

"We have it. This is it.
This is Iron Man."

Iron Man 1was incredibly special.

We sort of improv-ed the whole thing.

We laughed. We cried.

We got very, very close on that movie.

FAVREAU: We were the first
Marvel movie as a studio.

You know, there was
no real model for it yet.

Nobody expected too much of it.

He's Iron Man.

We wanted to make a good quality film,

a good story, something that
was smart enough, funny enough.

I still remember Tony
landing in the high desert

in the eastern Sierras
when he escapes the cave,

and I was buried up to my neck in
sand and the storm was coming in

and we only had a couple
minutes to get this take.

And it was like God's grace just came in

and gave us the take
that was in the movie.

Not bad.

I loved the first movie so much.

I was just so carried away by the story.

It was funny. It was clever. It was witty.

Let's face it, this is not the
worst thing you've caught me doing.

MARK RUFFALO: By casting Robert Downey Jr.,

they were intent on breaking

the tradition and mold
of these types of movies.

BRIE LARSON: It was an
unexpected choice at the time.

And so it made for this really dynamic,

really surprising performance.

Was that so hard?

He's so bright and so fast
and it takes you so long

to catch up with him and it's
perfect for that character.

Good luck keeping up.

I think most of us have been
pretty vocal about what he started,

and without him, none of us
would be in this position.

CHRIS EVANS:
He really is the patriarch.

I think he really understood

the weight of the responsibility
with these movies.

Iron Man 1changed the genre.

And I think the casting of Robert
Downey signaled to the world

that we are serious about our characters

and we really respect them in a way

that we're gonna hire
the best actors possible.

DOWNEY JR.: It really was
just this perfect storm.

I had hypnotized myself into
such a state of confidence

that I was certain...

everything we were doing worked,

and, uh, the rest is history.

I am Iron Man.

KEVIN FEIGE: I'm not sure
we could have done

this notion of an interlinked Marvel Cinematic Universe

without Captain America.

Whether it's bit by a spider
or exposed to gamma rays,

the notion of a super-powered
human started with Steve Rogers.

He is the backbone of the universe.

As we were developing Captain
America: The First Avenger,

we brought in these two writers

named Chris Markus and Steve McFeely.

They were the sole writers on
the first Captain America film.

They went on to become the sole writers

onCaptain America:
The Winter Soldier,

sole writers onCivil War,

and nowlnfinity War
andAvengers: Endgame.

They deserve as much credit for
Captain America as anybody else.

When we were talking to them,
they had two movies out.

And so the idea that,
"No, this is going to build"

"into a giant, ongoing
interconnected universe"

was like, "Uh-huh.
Yeah, sure, of course it will."

I have no doubt."

Chris and I sort of coincidentally
had been sort of blue-skying about,

"You know what someone should do.
A period superhero movie."

Right? When they were invented,
when they were created,

what would it be like to
use them in the proper time?

And then when we heard that Marvel
was going to do that, we were,

"Oh, my. We need to go
chase that down."

MARKUS: As for the writing,

we never worried
about the larger universe.

McFEELY: The mission is

always make the best
movie in front of you,

because this whole thing

is dependent on making
good movies one at a time.

We had the same goal in the firstCaptain America.

We subtitled the Captain
Americafilm "The First Avenger"

for a reason,

because putting a star
in red, white and blue

on that scrawny kid

who yearns to be a part of the battle,

that is where it all started.

We knew that the movie wouldn't work

if you didn't buy
Steve Rogers at the top.

ROGERS: I don't like bullies.

I don't care where they're from.

Well, there are already so
many big men fighting this war.

Maybe what we need now
is the little guy, huh?

JOE JOHNSTON: The spectacle and
the action sequences only work

if you're engaged in the characters.

You know, all the visual effects

and it doesn't matter
how big your budget is,

if you're not engaged in Steve Rogers/Captain America,

I think you're wasting your time, really.

McFEELY: We needed to fall in
love with skinny Steve Rogers

before he ever became Captain America.

And never forget
that he's in there.Yeah.

The serum amplifies
everything that is inside,

so good becomes great,

bad becomes worse.

This is why you were chosen.

Because a strong man who
has known power all his life

may lose respect for that power.

But a weak man

knows the value of strength.

MARKUS: Steve Rogers,
more than any of the other superheroes,

really kind of loses who he was

in the process of becoming Captain America.

The old him ceases to exist.

There's no life of Steve
Rogers that he goes back to.

InThe Avengers, he's the leader

because he's completely
dedicated to everything,

partially because he doesn't
have anything else to turn to.

JOSS WHEDON: His desire to keep it
ordered and to keep some meaning,

all that stuff is still an issue for him.

He's always been
this very austere kind of guy,

but had this real loyalty
to institutions and to people.

We have orders.
We should follow them.

Following's not really my style.

I think they slowly
strip that away from him.

You know, he loses his faith in
government in Winter Soldier.

He loses his faith in his friends
and his family inCivil War.

You know, I think when we
see him in Infinity War,

he's just turned his back
on a lot of things.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Earth just
lost her best defender,

so we're here to fight.

And if you want to stand in our way,

we'll fight you, too.

EVANS: With this movie,
they let him kind of return back to that

hopeful soldier, leader.

This is the fight of our lives...

and we're gonna win.

Whatever it takes.

When we first met the folks at Marvel,

we chased the Captain Americajob

and certainly had no idea

that it would lead to the
next 10 years of our career.

And we've had Cap most of the way.

It's been a lot of fun having
someone with that gravity.

It's a rare character.

You don't get to write
that character much anymore.

McFEELY:
He's an aspirational figure.

It's a combination of where
we put him in the universe

and Cap rising to the challenge.

You just don't know
when to give up, do you?

I can do this all day.

FEIGE: When our characters are beginning to come to life,

it all starts with artwork.

Our visual development group,

led by Ryan Meinerding for
the better part of a decade,

has been that very important step

between the comics and the final product

that has brought Captain America to life.

RYAN MEINERDING: One of the
great things about the comics

is that Captain America
was always designed

to read really quickly.

And also, because they had
limited colors in the printing,

there's a simplification that
happened with a lot of them,

that they were just, you know,
this guy's red, white and blue.

There's a really fast,
iconic thing that happens

with the characters
as the source material.

Trying to bring that into a real
setting, like for a film,

whatever they simplified
for the design for the comics,

we're trying to fill out in a
way that makes it feel real.

If they only had line work
and four colors

and they're able to make something
that resonates with people

for 60, 70 years, how can we find
a way of putting it into our work?

In the case with Captain America,

we're trying to find reference materials

that bring him into sort
of the world of a soldier.

The first time he puts on the costume

inCaptain America:
First Avenger,

it's about him being that sort of
patriotic icon that's on the...

In the USO show.

So that was where we were trying

to sort of take those really classic

and iconic lines that were
designed back in the '40s

and turn it into something

that was always kind of meant
to be a little bit goofy,

sort of put him on stage and say,
"You're a symbol for America."

"Show us how much
of a symbol you are."

"Not all of us can storm
a beach or drive a tank,"

"but there's still a way
all of us can fight."

One of the amazing things about
being able to work on a character

through multiple movies
is that you actually get

to tell the story of the
character through the costume.

Seeing Cap's change fromCaptain
America: The First Avenger

throughAvengers and intoWinter
Soldier, for example,

is a pretty big visual change.

Being a person in the 1940s

and coming forward into 2012

and sort of living in that period of time

and being a fish-out-of-water

and then sort of acclimating
very quickly and becoming

this very stealth-oriented,
extreme tactical ops person

is a crazy change.

And it worked so well because...

Partially because the costume actually
reflects what he's going through.

ANTHONY RUSSO: What made Cap
unique in the Marvel Universe

and sort of in the nature
of his powers, he's sort of

basically a man, only more so.

His fighting technique's a very visceral,

surprising experience of action.

JOE RUSSO:
From a visual standpoint,

you take the script
and you identify, like,

10 great moments in the movie

and then you take
a brilliant artist, like Ryan,

and you say, "Here's what we're
looking for from this moment."

And then Ryan draws up

and colors and inks a beautiful,

you know, frame from the movie.

Before we get started,
does anyone want to get out?

JOE: They do
incorporate lighting.

They incorporate a strong visual
element, where will the camera be,

in a very, you know, sort of
dynamic and specific moment.

And that does inspire the movie.

FEIGE: ForCaptain America,

almost every iconic sequence came
right out of Ryan's original drawings,

where he was just by himself with
his drawing pad at his computer.

MEINERDING: I've been at
Marvel for about 12 years,

which is almost the entire time

that Marvel Studios has existed.

There's a sort of a craziness to the notion

that I've been able
to stay with the character

over the course of nine years.

Being that sort of medium
between the comics

and what is actually on the screen

has been a joy that I couldn't have imagined.

When we really distilled

the core qualities that we wanted

out of Captain America,

I think there's a moral fiber to him

that really isn't something that you act,

that it's something you need to possess.

And Chris Evans was someone

who seemed to inhabit all
of those qualities the most.

So everyone was in love
with the idea of Chris,

except Chris.

EVANS: The only reason there
was hesitation to begin with

was because of the commitment.

It's a big movie and, you know,

those are the movies
that if they succeed,

there's a change, a lifestyle change.

And if it fails,
it's a whole other can of worms.

Even Chris's reluctance to be a star...

spoke to how right he was for the role

because Captain America was
not looking for the limelight.

He was humble. He was modest.

He needed to feel that in his bones.

EVANS: I love the character.

He's everything that I wish
I could be as a man, you know.

And the creative forces behind the film are fantastic,

between Joe and Kevin Feige.

I mean, you know, Marvel in general,

they know what they're doing,
so in the end, I was so excited.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: Once he
committed, he committed 1,000%.

You know, he stands there,
tells the truth and then kicks ass.

NATE MOORE:
I think there's a confidence

that he really brings to the character

and an integrity
that people really respond to.

FINN: There's something so endearing,
so charismatic, so charming.

He has so much heart.
There was something very heroic.

MOORE: There is something that
he brings to the character

beyond what we could write on the page,

beyond what we could illustrate
in, you know, special effects

that is uniquely Chris.

DOWNEY JR.: It's no secret,
I love Chris Evans.

And I love Captain America.

Captain America was the single hardest
character to launch in this universe.

This kind of guy out of time,

and is it too retro?
Are people going to get it?

SCARLETT JOHANSSON: I cannot
imagine anybody but Chris

playing this role.

It's really... It's a very difficult
role to play because on one hand,

you have this character that has
this very strong moral compass

and you try to think,
"Where's the conflict in that?"

CHADWICK BOSEMAN: He allows
himself to be vulnerable,

but he allows himself
to not take it so seriously.

Don't worry about it.
It's just a... What's that do?

He makes you love that character,

and it makes people want to follow him.

SEBASTIAN STAN: It's been really great
watching him sort of pull this off.

What he does in these movies
may look effortless,

but it's effortless because, you know,

it's a testament to what
he's done with the character.

EVANS: It's tough to try
and present challenges

to someone who is so selfless.

The biggest worry is not only
trying to make the guy entertaining,

but also keep him interesting enough

to have audiences want him coming back.

DOWNEY JR.:
Every time I see Evans,

he's like more and more like Cap.

It's like we've invested him with that.

And Chris is up for that

because that's what makes it
exciting and different.

There's this huge amount
of love for the character.

There's 20 Captain America
shirts wherever I go.

It's ceased to become just about him

and how well he inhabited
the role and all that stuff.

It's become part of our
culture just as a symbol.

It's that thing that gives you kind
of, you know, teenage goosebumps.

JOE: I think we have a lot emotionally
invested in Cap as a character.

We have a lot emotionally
invested in Chris

as a friend and a collaborator.

It's a proud moment
to be able to sit back

and look at with perspective,

the journey that
that character's gone on.

EVANS: You're looking at yourself in this old makeup

and you're trying
to tap into Steve's journey,

but you can't help
but think about your own

and think about what this entire
experience has meant to you.

It's just been littered
with so many good memories.

They never want to work, these
kids, but I'll get them there.

EVANS: It is
because of this journey,

of just such an embarrassment of riches

and such good fortune and just good luck.

And again, it's just so unblemished

because there's so many
wonderful people around me.

This has been such an
incredible chapter in my life.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON: We'd love to take this character

in every different direction.

I think she certainly encounters her
fair share of the Marvel Universe.

It's nice to be able to play a superheroine who has a past.

You know, she obviously has been
around for over, what, 40 years.

And I think has a real foundation

for all different kinds of spinoffs

or interactions with other characters.

I think the possibilities
are really endless.

JON FAVREAU: Inlron Man 2,
the part that appealed to me most

about her was her dedication
and just her intelligence.

I think you need smart people
in a movie like that.

There's too much up for grabs.

There's too many things that change.

And you need somebody who's going
to be a steward of their character.

"Cordon off all access to the track

"and clear the airspace
for whoever needs."We got it?

MAN: Here we go. Ding!

Scarlett was just a dream.

You know, she's so game.
And she had a really good time doing it.

I'm my own, my own secret weapon.

Unlike some of us, uh,
older, uh, curmudgeons,

there's very little you can do
to get under her skin.

She's just consummately professional.

JOHANSSON: I love
playing this character.

When we first met Natasha inlron Man 2

she was Natalie and, you know, you got to see her, kind of, undercover work

and, you know,
it wasn't until the end of that film

her true identity was revealed as an agent of S.H.I.E.I.D.

You are mind-blowingly duplicitous.
How do you do it?

You just tear things.
You're a triple imposter.

I've never seen anything like you.

Is there anything real about you?

Do you even speak Latin? Fallaces sunt rerum species.

Which means? Wait, what?
What'd you just say?

It means you can either
drive yourself home

or I can have you collected.

JOHANSSON: InAvengers, we see,
of course, her in her own environment.

Just like Budapest all over again!

You and I remember Budapest
very differently.

JOHANSSON: We get to see a
little bit more of who she is,

a little bit of her history,
of her, kind of, shady past.

I got red in my ledger,
I'd like to wipe it out.

Can you wipe out that much red?

Dreykov's daughter? Sao Paulo?
The hospital fire?

Your ledger is dripping.
It's gushing red.

You pretend to be separate, to have your own code,

something that makes up for the horrors,

but they are part of you. And they will never go away.

JOHANSSON:
With the secondCap,

the character starts to
question her own identity,

question her own choices.

I thought I knew
whose lies I was telling,

but I guess I can't
tell the difference anymore.

She's an isolated character.

Cap doesn't know whether he can trust her or not,

so she is not part of the family, per se,

because she's never been taught to
rely on anyone other than herself.

And she has a view of the world

that is skeptical, and cynical,

and her and Cap grow over the course of that movie

and he teaches her trust.

You know, it's kind of hard
to trust someone

when you don't know
who that someone really is.

Who do you want me to be?

How 'bout a friend?

Well, there's a chance you might be

in the wrong business, Rogers.

JOHANSSON: InAvengers 2,

she really, you know, allowed herself to want things

and to envision a life for
herself outside of the things

that have kind of fallen upon her.

I have no place in the world.

MADAME B: Exactly.

KEVIN FEIGE: And you realize
how strong she was

to have come out the other side

and to be a part
of this very heroic team.

JOHANSSON: Her past is something
that's always been shrouded in mystery

and, you know, we continue
to open up the story,

give little, kind of, tidbits

and throw the bone out once in a while

as to where she came from
and what her background is.

NATASHA: I had this dream,

the kind that seems normal at the time,

but when you wake...

What did you dream?

That I was an Avenger.

That I was anything more than
the assassin they made me.

In Civil War, she starts to realize

that the Avengers are her family.

And she makes a choice to try to preserve the family.

NATASHA: We've made
some very public mistakes.

We need to win their trust back.

That's what makes
this character really heroic

is that she's, kind of,
dug her heels in and said,

"Look, you know, I could
kind of go down this road,"

"which would be the more desirable road personally,"

"and disappear and live off the map."

But she chooses this,
kind of, greater calling.

NATASHA: Just because it's
the path of least resistance

doesn't mean it's the wrong path.

Staying together is more important
than how we stay together.

ANTHONY RUSSO:
Part of the reason

why the Avengers failed inlnfinity War

is because they were divided,
because of the fallout of Civil War.

Natasha's a very strategic fighter

and she I think is really just trying to give whatever she can

in order to save as many people as possible.

NATASHA: He did exactly what he said he was gonna do.

Thanos wiped out 50%
of all living creatures.

JOE RUSSO: At the beginning of
Endgame, she wants to bring it all back

because she feels like it is the
strongest emotional connection

that she's ever had in her life.

She's struggling to deal
with the fact that they lost.

And she hasn't stopped.

Five years later, she's still fighting

to figure out how to fix this problem and she hasn't let go.

She has to do everything in her
power to undo what Thanos did.

JOE: She's presented with a choice:

she has to give her own life to bring everyone else back

and she does it,

which is the most,
single most heroic moment

in the history of the Marvel Universe.

It's okay.

I actually think that in some weird,

and it is a very emotional thing,

but some weird twisted-up fateful way,

this character who, you know,

has searched her whole life for a purpose,

actually finds her purpose.

And it's like this amazing, super-emotional, beautiful thing.

You know what I've become.

Oh, I don't judge people

on their worst mistakes.

Maybe you should.

You didn't.

I feel very fortunate.

It's been an incredible gift as an actor

to be able to come back to a character that's as complex as Natasha.

I think there's, kind of, a lot to explore there

and that is so exciting.

Cars are coming down the middle

as our heroes are running
this way and this way.

CHRIS EVANS: Love the Russos.

I remember them the first
couple days on Winter Soldier.

They really felt like the
new kids on the playground.

But everything they said they
were gonna do, they delivered on.

Their attitude kind of breeds
this sort of lightness on set.

Let's do one more.

KEVIN FEIGE:
They're the filmmakers

that took theCaptain America series

and elevated it with the Winter Soldier.

"Gotta know, Cap.
This isn't personal."

And then you...

But then did it again with Civil War.

That film is gigantic.

This is gonna be a great shot.

FEIGE: We were midway through
production onCivil War,

and we saw the amazing job that
Anthony and Joe were doing,

handling all these different characters,

telling this very unique storyline.

It's going kind of this way right now
and then the window's gonna shatter.

Yeah. And then...

We knew where we wanted to head
with the next Avengersfilm,

and it was then that we
started talking to them

about coming fromCivil War
ontolnfinity War.

We had no time to settle between
Civil War and Infinity War.

ANTHONY: As we were conceiving and executing
Civil War,

the end of that movie
was very much a setup

for what these movies would be.

We always had the sense of that.

Even not having a break,

I think we were able to move forward

because there is such a
continuity in the narrative.

In Infinity War, the scope of the
film, I think, is unrivaled.

And really, the only way
the film could be made

was in the hands
of Anthony and Joe Russo.

That was an A-plus version of the shot.

MARK RUFFALO:
I was really blown away

by how culturally powerful it was.

I've never seen a reaction
like that after a movie.

Infinity Wartakes people on an epic quest

that does everything from entertain

and delight you to devastate you emotionally.

The success of that film
is certainly a testament

to the Russo brothers
as a directing team.

There's no doubt it was not an easy task.

LOUIS D'ESPOSITO:
You look atlnfinity War,

you're in the hands of master filmmakers.

It is truly remarkable.

Slow it down just a hair and just
turn it into a little bit of a...

Yeah. Sure.

You know, like, "I'm getting...
I'm gonna get," you know.

Give it a little look and then go with it.
Okay? Here we go.

We talk a lot about the
culmination of Avengers: Endgame.

We wanted to do a great finale

that not only had the spectacle
worthy of Infinity War,

but with sequences and scenes and character interactions

that could only be done
with Joe and Anthony.

They're the only directors that
could handle this many characters

and doing this ambitious of a story

that needs to pay off every
film that we've ever made

in one climactic conclusion,
while at the same time,

introducing an entirely new direction for the future.

D'ESPOSITO: When we were thinking
about these twoAvengers films,

we came up with this idea,
let's shoot them together.

And it seemed like
a great idea at the time,

but it's impossible to juggle one story.

And the idea of two stories
this complicated,

figuring out what they are,
how they intertwine.

The Russos are so adept at
handling complicated storylines.

You know, after the camera
whips to you...

Yeah. Take in the group
for a beat,

and then ask where's Fury.

BRIE LARSON:
You have to understand

what makes each character unique,

what special qualities they bring to it,

how they can shine.

DANAI GURIRA: It's pretty amazing watching these brothers, like,

create these amazing,
powerfully epic tales.

Go that way?

Well, that'll just be
the badass delivery.

You feel very, you know,
safe and taken care of

and at the same time,
you feel like you can contribute.

I'm clearly charting the course.

And then you just come in
and start charting the course.

Yeah. You're like...

Uh, we're going to...
Where to?

TESSA THOMPSON:
The magic trick is

that they're working with so many actors that have,

you know, their own
relationship to the characters

that come from their own
sort of parts of the universe.

And to make that all into something

that feels cohesive is incredible.

PRATT: So, it's all in one piece.
So it's gonna be like... Boom.

JOE: It's focused at the end of it.
Go back to the stake.

TOM HOLLAND: They've done
the unthinkable, really.

I mean, it's not
just two movies back to back.

It's the two biggest movies of all time,

and they've been at the helm
the whole time without fail.

TRINH TRAN:
They love these characters,

and they know
these characters inside out.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.:
Anthony and Joe,

they've essentially been on a job for
six, seven years now.

And I love them.

And they love the Avengers.

ANTHONY: Joe and I have
always loved to figure out,

"How do we take the character
and how do we take the audience"

"and how do we take ourselves
on a surprising journey"

"that is not
holding anything back?"

As you progress through films like that,

your job as directors
gets bigger and bigger.

We really have an amazing team around us

that allow us to focus
on the bigger picture,

so we're very happy with this experience.

It's been really exciting to get to work

with some of the actors
from different franchises

that I have just admired that,

I guess you could say,
are sort of an extended family.

And then of course,
there's new characters

that are also being introduced to the family.

Where are you going?

To kill Thanos.

JOHANSSON: It's certainly
great to see that

the audiences are embracing and
even asking for, begging for

really strong female superheroes.

It's wonderful to feel
like you've witnessed

and been a part of that growth.

I'm always picking up after you boys.

I think one of the dangers
of playing a kickass chick

is that you just mimic what
you've always seen kickass men do.

You want to show me
how to punch? Go ahead.

That's how you punch.

It's really important for me to find

the voice and the rhythm and the style

and the meaning of what it
means to be a powerful woman.

And that that be its own distinct thing.

DANAI GURIRA: I so enjoy being
able to be a piece in the puzzle

that was a woman
who was the head of an army

and who was the right-hand
"man" of the leader.

And seeing how that resonated was very humbling and very moving.

Women are demanding
equality in the workplace,

whether you're in a superhero
costume or an office job.

And I think Marvel is doing a great job

of amplifying that in the films

and representing that properly.

And that's a beautiful thing.

Every morning, I think about
every way that I can help women

have representation
and be out there in the world.

And I think for me it's important

for women to know that it can be done.

Hi, I'm Peter Parker.

Hey, Peter Parker.

You got something for me?

Our goal with Endgame was to
provide a climactic conclusion

to the journey that the MCU has been on

for these 11 years now.

And so we spent a lot of time looking backwards

at the journey that the
overarching narrative has taken

and all the characters that
have been a part of that story.

And I remember it just
dawning on all of us one day,

just, like, the sheer number
of amazing female characters

that were now in the MCU,

which is so exciting
and impressive to all of us.

I mean, we really looked for an
opportunity to just celebrate that.

You could just see
this really beautiful thing,

which you kind of get a taste of

withAvengers: Infinity War
as well,

which is very powerful people meeting each other,

powerful people all being in one room,

powerful people that all have very specific skills

working together to form a team.

We have a smaller moment

in the Wakanda field in Infinity War,

where we have Okoye, Natasha and Wanda

teaming up to fight Proxima.

And that moment in the trench was pretty spectacular to see

when we were shootinglnfinity War,

and we wanted a little bit
more of that in Avengers 4.

I don't know how you're gonna
get it through all of that.

Don't worry.

She's got help.

It was really beautiful to feel

this sort of Marvel sisterhood, you know,

and we're all coming from so many different films

that we all came together.

It was kind of like, "I see what you do."

I know your powers. Okay.

"Show me what you've got,"
and then we just clicked.

And we were just, like,
cheering each other on.

Everyone just kind of taking their turns

moving around,

trying to help each other out. It was so fun.

You share... Exactly.

This connection,
you know. So there's a connection

without ever having met.Yeah.

It's a really cool thing
about the whole battle.

That day was insane.

We were all in it together
and it felt electric.

It was really, really cool.

MAN: Three, and action!

You know, I normally don't
watch playback on the monitor,

but I wanted to see that reveal
of all the women of Marvel,

and I thought it was really powerful

and really exhilarating.

And I was thinking of all of
the young girls in the audience

who will probably feel
really inspired by that

in one way or another.

So, it was a really nice thing to be a part of.

And it's exciting
'cause all of us are saying,

"I've never experienced this before."

"I've never been in a film
with this many women"

"and this many strong women
who stand equal to the men."

There is something very powerful

and we're realizing it more and more,

just how magical it is

to allow women to express
their full gamut of their power

and their abilities as a unit.

What's wrong with him? ROCKET: Oh, he's pissed.

He thinks he failed.

ANTHONY RUSSO: Thor has
suffered tremendous loss,

more so than any other character.

Asgard has been destroyed,

and now he has to suffer
the loss to Thanos.

How does a person who's suffered
two devastating losses like that

move forward,
and how would he process that?

Boys!

CHRIS HEMSWORTH: Every
aspect of him was broken.

Some tragic things have
happened and he's decided,

"You know what?
I'm just gonna check out"

"and eat pizza
and drink beer."

And that's what he's done, you know.

You all right?

Yes. I'm fine. Why?

Why, don't I look all right?

You look like melted ice cream.

So, what's up?
You just here for a hang?

He's a very depressed
sort of removed Thor,

becoming the opposite of what
we've known him to be in the past.

I know you think I'm down here

wallowing in my own self-pity...

feeling sorry for myself,
hoping to be rescued,

hoping to be saved,
but you're wrong, okay?

But the great thing about Thor is, like,

there's something in his
spirit that stands in contrast

to where he's let himself go
physically and emotionally.

There's beer on the ship.

What kind?

HEMSWORTH: Being able to do
this new version of Thor,

it's hugely liberating and fun.

We had a big sort of fat suit,

which I think was
sort of 60 or 70 pounds.

This'll move.

MAN: Yep,
that's the shimmy.

It was the hottest I've ever been.

How does that feel?

I mean, amazing.

It looks like it's in the right place.

HEMSWORTH: And we have,
obviously, the beard, the hair,

and I have these things
that go in the mouth

to kind of plump out my cheeks a bit,

which sort of had a little
effect on the voice as well,

but probably in a good way.

It was a different Thor.

Hi, my name's Thor.
I'm 22 years old,

live on Asgard and I like sugar.

PAUL RUDD: We're shooting
a superhero film

and here's one of the most
recognizable superheroes,

but he's just turned
into a new character.

What Chris does with that character

and how it just kind of has this shift,

his excitement was really palpable.

TESSA THOMPSON: He'd been
playing the character for a while

and really wanted to find something new.

He has such dexterity as a talent.

He's incredibly funny.

He has just really lovely energy.

NATASHA: Is he asleep?

RHODES: No, no.
I'm pretty sure he's dead.

KEVIN FEIGE: Thor's new look will seem
like it's being played for laughs.

But thanks to the performance
that Chris Hemsworth gives,

it becomes very touching.

Let me, just let me, let me do this.

Let me do something right.

And we see over the course of the film,

how he tries to regain
his sense of purpose

and regain his sense of redemption.

It's not working.

LOUIS D'ESPOSITO:
At the end of the day,

even though he's carrying
a lot more weight,

he's still the Thor that we love.

I'm still worthy.

D'ESPOSITO: The Avengers
pull him back in.

To have a sense of duty,

he finally comes around

and he's a full-on Avenger,
with carrying another 80 pounds, though.

Look at the first couple steps.

HEMSWORTH:
I thought I was booking.

I thought I was going so quick.

ANTHONY: Maybe you want
to give a battle cry.

Oh, yeah.
Good one there.

It felt like I was playing a
completely different character.

There was a real opportunity to
just kind of swing for the fences

and it was so much fun.

What do you think
is coursing through my veins?

Cocoa Puffs? Nachos?
Embarrassment?

Lightning.

ROGERS: Asking a woman to dance
always seems so terrifying.

And the past few years just
didn't seem to matter that much.

Figured I'd wait. For what?

Right partner.

JOE RUSSO: The essential
conflict in Steve

is the desire to serve.

And that desire to serve would
supersede his personal identity.

He's got an amazing set
of morals and values.

He's an incredibly good man,

given the hand that life has dealt him.

Doctors kinda know that if this
guy is given this great gift,

he won't take advantage of it.

He understands how to value what he has

'cause he didn't always have it.

JOE JOHNSTON: The common issue
among all the Marvel heroes

is that they have a very
vulnerable side to them.

And Steve Rogers is certainly
no exception to that.

He is probably the most vulnerable

before he becomes Captain America.

CHRISTOPHER MARKUS: He,
more that any of the other superheroes,

really, kind of, loses who he was

in the process of becoming him.

'Cause he was a scrawny, 90-pound man,

who gets changed into Captain America.

So the old him ceases to exist.

There's no life of Steve
Rogers that he goes back to.

Almost, I get the feeling,

he'd be more comfortable if he
could wear the outfit all the time

because then he has a persona.

Then he knows who he is.

That's the first time he was valued,

he had very few people who valued him.

He wasn't quite an orphan

but he was alone fairly early on

and he had one friend.

It was Bucky Barnes, and Bucky Barnes goes off to war.

And he was a scrappy kid

who got picked on all his life.

JOHNSTON:
He is very relatable.

He is a superhero.

But all his power is basically
what the human body can do.

McFEELY: Once circumstances lead him to being Captain America,

he finds, you know, a purpose.

You told me you thought I
was meant for more than this.

Did you mean that?

Every word.

HAYLEY ATWELL:
Peggy has a career.

And she has a lot of self-respect.

And she's pretty sick and tired

of lots of men kind of not taking her

seriously in the Army, and you know,

playing around with her.

I think Peggy relates to someone really fighting for what they believe in

and really having to struggle all the time to prove themselves.

And, she being the only woman in this environment,

knows exactly what that feels like.

It's not just the normal, everyday love story.

There's something else.

In the same way that we love Steve,

because he exhibits
some sort of determination

and selflessness,

that's the same thing that attracts her to him.

JOE: Steve learned a lot
from Peggy Carter.

If you go back and look
atThe First Avenger,

that is the essential relationship

that I think turned him
into who he is today.

It turned him into Captain America.

Her sense of integrity,

her call to action are all
qualities that have been engrained

in Steve and are his best qualities.

And they come from
an example, from Peggy.

And so I think it was
critical that her character

embody those essential qualities

because he wouldn't be
who he is without them.

I'm gonna need a rain check
on that dance.

A week, next Saturday at the Stork Club.

You got it.

PEGGY: 8:00 on the dot. Don't you dare be late.

JOE: The great tragedy
of Steve Rogers' existence

was, now he found he love of his life

and then, had to sacrifice himself,

and 70 years of his life
to save the world.

ANTHONY: I always found it very endearing about Cap,

that for all that character
has sacrificed,

and he's sacrificed a lot.

But one thing he could never let go of was Peggy.

And it just stayed with him all those years.

It's been so long.

So long.

Well, I couldn't leave my best girl.

Not when she owes me a dance.

ATWELL: We want the audiences
to feel moved by it.

People have sent me poems that
they've written about Peggy and Cap,

and montages that they've sent me

of Peggy and Cap's greatest moments,

putting, like, soundtracks over them,

like Aerosmith soundtracks or something,

with longing looks from Peggy and Cap.

And I'm realizing that the
story has affected them.

And that's great 'cause we feel
like that's what we wanted.

We wanted something that had heart to it

that people, essentially, cared about.

Even after he died, Steve
was still changing my life.

I really like what they let
my character experience

in these movies, to be honest,

the struggle and the sacrifice

and the culmination of friendships

that have had peaks and valleys.

And it's just a really
layered, colorful experience.

JOE: His arc over the
course of the movies

take him from a place of service,

to where he started to question authority

and ultimately embrace his identity

and become self-actualized.

And he has the opportunity
inAvengers: Endgame

to go back and correct the loss

and be with Peggy, the love of his life.

And he makes that choice.

So, did something go wrong
or did something go right?

Well, after I

put the stones back, I thought...

Maybe I'll...

try some of that life Tony was

telling me to get.

You're trying' to tap into Steve's
journey before you go to set

to understand what this moment
means to him.

But you can't help but think
about your own.

And think about what
this entire experience

has meant to you.

God, you can get choked up even
thinking about it right now.

You wanna tell me about her?

ROGERS: No.

No, I don't think I will.

TONY: Are these our gojis?

PEPPER: They're not. TONY: What's wrong with ours?

Your alpaca
ate them all.Oh.

All of them.
What a glowing endorsement.

First of all, Gerald is our alpaca.

He's not my alpaca
if he's eating my gojis.

Okay. They're gonna be nice in
the salad right there, right?

No, don't, don't, don't!
Could you put it down?

Get out of my kitchen.Okay.

TONY: Whoops.

We're good here,
right? Yeah, we're great.

Tell Madam Secretary
that lunch is in five.

I will collect
our alpha female posthaste.

And what happened
to the Tesseract after that?

It's at the bottom of the ocean.

It fell out of the plane
after I had to crash it.

Yeah, I've been meaning to ask,

why did you have
to crash the plane anyway?

There were bombs on board.

Bombs on board.

And you couldn't have jumped out
of the plane before you crashed it?

ROCKET: How long
did you fight these guys?

About, uh, two or three hours.

Hours?

The Chitauri are the
suckiest army in the galaxy.

Why didn't you just
blow up the mother ship?

We didn't know that was a thing.

You didn't know that was a thing?

Everyone knows... Hey!

There we go.

ROCKET:
All clear. Which way?

Oh.

THOR: You say something?

ROCKET: I said
I want to claw my eyes out.

But unfortunately,
it wouldn't do any good

'cause I already saw the awfulness.

Will you focus? I'm focused.

This pretty place is about
to get uglified real quick

by a bunch of frickin' elves.

Do you know that I saw
all these people die?

So this is a little bit
difficult for me, okay?

So why don't you reach down deep inside

and try and find
a small ounce of humanity?

Just give me the thingy.

"Just give me the thingy.
Just give me the thingy."

I didn't even want to come here.

Reliving all these repressed memories.

My God,
get it together. Get it together.

You're embarrassing.

All right.
Which way?

I don't know.

You don't know?
You used to frickin' live here!

For 1,500 years.
Not forever.

That way, I think.
Yeah. Maybe.

ROCKET: We are dead.
We are so, so dead.

I get it. It's nutty,
it's crazy-making

'cause you start worrying
about a legacy, you know.

You want to leave them the better world,

and then you realize you haven't
done all that much to give them one,

and it's...

What's your name, again?

Potts.Potts.

Yeah.

You want to come work for me, Potts?

I'm a little tied up
in futures right now.

Nobody pull a hamstring.

Warm your butt cheeks up.
Warm up your butt cheeks!

MAN: Cut there.

Copy that!

CHRIS HEMSWORTH:
There you go, ya cub.

I broke it.

Fill.

MAN 1: Action!
No, no, not yet.

MAN 2: All right, here we go.

The thing about time travel...

It's more important to look marvelous

than to feel marvelous.

I can't believe I made a whole movie

with this thing on.
This is...

Yeah, does it look cool or...

MAN: Yeah.
It looks cool. Right?

It doesn't feel cool, but if it
looks cool, that's what matters.

THOR: Do you have any idea

what's coursing
through my veins right now?

Funyuns?

HEMSWORTH: Yes!

Orange soda?

We are getting the whole team,
aren't we? a duck!

There, good one.

You see what I have to deal with here?
Ten years of this.

Her synaptic drive was probably

damaged in battle.

Her synaptic drive was
badly damaged in battle.

Are you sure you want to 90210this?

Fix Star-Lord's hair.

Whoo!

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.:
Turn her off!

I feel like I've given you
all you could ever want.

TONY: God, it seems
like a thousand years ago.

I fought my way out of that cave,

became Iron Man,

realized I loved you.

I know I said no more surprises,

but I was really hoping
to pull off one last one.

ANTHONY RUSSO: The really unique
thing about Endgame for Joe and I

was that this movie was the ending.

JOE RUSSO:
Marvel and Kevin Feige

have certainly done something
singular in cinematic history.

We really want to bring that
same experience to the audience.

We want them to feel the fullest range of emotion,

because we feel like that
creates the most complete ending.

Our goal was to deliver an experience

that felt like a very satisfying,

surprising, yet fitting ending to this narrative

that they've been following
for these many years

and these characters that
they've loved for so long.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Avengers...

assemble.

JOE: It's about as massive a
production as you can mount.

You really have to have an
incredible team of collaborators

that you're working with,

so it's been a very
special experience for us.

ANTHONY: There's an energy
here on set

that comes from everybody's
dedication and character

and belief in what we're doing,

that what we're doing is important and matters to people.

Everybody recognizes,
I think, in the cast

what an amazing opportunity
these movies are,

and they know that it's going
to take everybody's best effort

to pull them off properly,

so the collaborative energy that every one of these actors

brings to set every day
is really remarkable

and a big part of the magic
of these movies.

JOE: Ladies and gentlemen!

That's a wrap!

ANTHONY: These are all people that for literally the last seven years,

uninterrupted,
we have been collaborating with.

JOE: They've been
like family to us.

We're going to miss everyone.

ANTHONY: This has been
such a rare opportunity.

It's the opportunity of a career.

And I think we look at it like that,

and I think everybody involved does,

so this time that we've spent
at Marvel is irreplaceable.

Yeah.