Anthony Mackie talks ‘Captain America The Winter Soldier,’ Falcon, ‘Avengers 2’ and keeping the wings

Anthony Mackie had a great chat with Total Film about Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain Blu-ray and DVD release and couldn’t dodge questions on playing Sam Wilson aka Falcon.

Some of the early set photos showed Mackie in costume and the interviewer asked if it was hard to be so serious in costume.

“[Laughs] Not at all! The funny thing about that was, every time I put on the costume I felt kind of invincible. So It was more trying not to get in trouble! I felt a little ridiculous at first because you’re a thirty-something-year-old man dressing like a cartoon hero, but after a while you start buying into it.”

Mackie said that he didn’t know if he would be taking wing as Falcon again in Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, not much has changed.

“I’m under contract for a bunch of movies but I don’t know if Avengers 2 is one of them. You’ve got a bunch of guys that get paid to go to work with their friends and have fun every day. Why wouldn’t you want to be a part of that?”

Of course Mackie was asked about keeping items as part of their contract.

“They said no! [But] when I started [playing] the Falcon, I put in my contract that I get to keep my wings. Like, ‘That’s Falcon, bitch, on the wall, behind ‘EMERGENCY: BREAK GLASS’!”

Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens April 4, 2014.