Mackie, who is taking over the role of Captain America from Chris Evans in the upcoming film, said that he doesn’t think the star-spangled superhero “represents” America.

No one was more surprised than Anthony Mackie that he was the new Captain America – mainly because he thought his character Sam Wilson was going to die in Avengers: Endgame.

Anthony Mackie has addressed the controversy surrounding a remark he made on a recent promotional trip for Marvel's "Captain America: Brave New World." On Tuesday, the actor and longtime Marvel Cinematic Universe star wrote in his Instagram Stories,

Anthony Mackie, the star of Marvel's soon-to-release "Captain America: Brave New World," said that the iconic character should not "represent" America. "Captain America represents a lot of different things and I don’t think the term ‘America’ should be one of those representations.

"For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don't think the term 'America' should be one of those representations," said the actor.

The star of the newest Marvel superhero film said Captain America should not represent the United States, suggesting the hero represents other values. Anthony Mackie, who stars in the film Captain America: Brave New World,

Anthony Mackie explained what Captain America represents for him, and the fans are unsparingly divided. It's become Marvel Cinematic Universe lore that the fanbase of the superhero franchise is constantly battling in a civil war on the internet,