When asked if Anthony Mackie is the MCU’s permanent Captain America, Moore simply says: “He is. He is. And we’re so happy to have him.”

Anthony Mackie taking on the role of Captain America, a fictional comic book character initially portrayed as a white man with blond hair and blue eyes, isn’t groundbreaking to comic books fans. The idea of a Black man as the patriotic superhero was introduced in 1998 by writer Mark Waid in the comic book “Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty,

His first time on the big screen occurred in “8 Mile,” which stars Eminem as Detroit rapper Jimmy Smith Jr., aka B-Rabbit, in his attempt to launch a hip-hop career. The movie includes autobiographical elements from Eminem’s real life.