Anthony Mackie Causes Stir with Falcon/Winter Soldier Romance Comments
by EG
Anthony Mackie has made some fans of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier unhappy with his comments about a possible romance between the series' two lead characters. Mackie definitely thinks the two characters shouldn't be gay. He's also sad, he says, that two guys can't be friends anymore without people thinking they're gay. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
It was a wintry response.
When “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” star Anthony Mackie was asked by Variety how he felt about fans who “outright” want the main characters, Sam and Bucky, to get romantic, he very quickly shot the idea down — calling it the “exploitation of homosexuality.”
“For me, in this day and age, so many things are twisted and convoluted,” Mackie, 42, stated. “There’s so many things that people latch onto with their own devices to make themselves relevant and rational.”
He added, “The idea of two guys being friends and loving each other in 2021 is a problem because of the exploitation of homosexuality.”
Needless to say, fans of the series — specifically those who “shipped” Sam and Bucky as a potential romance — were not happy with Mackie’s response.
“Anthony Mackie waited until pride month to talk about how annoying it is for gay people with virtually no representation in the MCU to head [canon] their faves as gay,” one upset fan wrote on Twitter.
As the interview continued, Mackie added that “it used to be guys could be friends, we could hang out,” adding that men “can’t do that anymore because something as pure and beautiful as homosexuality is being exploited by people trying to rationalize themselves.”
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