{"id":42232,"date":"2023-12-20T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1948780"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:06:21","slug":"wyatt-russell-thunderbolts-will-go-deep-into-everybodys-psyche","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/wyatt-russell-thunderbolts-will-go-deep-into-everybodys-psyche\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Russell: Thunderbolts will \u201cgo deep into everybody\u2019s psyche\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

“All good sci-fi theorises really good philosophical questions.” <\/p>

By Louise Griffin\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 16:04 PM<\/p>

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As Wyatt Russell prepares for his MCU<\/a> return, he\u2019s teased what we can expect from upcoming movie Thunderbolts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The actor, who previously played John Walker in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, will reprise his role in the 2025 film, which will see a group of antiheroes team up in a world without the Avengers.<\/p>\n

Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a> alongside his father, actor Kurt Russell, Wyatt has revealed that the movie is about to ask some very deep questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll good sci-fi theorises really good philosophical questions. One of the things in Endgame<\/a> that I really loved, like Thanos [was] this idea that there\u2019s a lot of people on planet Earth, [so] if the 405 in LA all of a sudden just became half the amount of people, they were like, \u2018That\u2019s kind of great.\u2019 So there\u2019s a fun theory behind it,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I really love how they\u2019ve theorised the philosophy of this particular movie. I think that it goes deep into everybody\u2019s psyche in a way where we all deal with things that these characters have to deal with.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, they\u2019re put on a bigger scale, but I think that\u2019s going to be really, really fun to work out, because it requires again a little bit more than fighting just a bad guy.<\/p>\n

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Wyatt Russell in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.<\/span><\/figcaption> Disney<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s reasons deep within you that you\u2019re fighting the bad guy, and really, are you fighting yourself while you\u2019re fighting the bad guy? I think that they\u2019ve done a good job and will continue to do a good job of peppering that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Kurt is also no stranger to the MCU, having voiced Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2<\/a> \u2013 and he couldn\u2019t resist weighing in after seeing his son take on a character like John Walker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know the Marvel world all that well, and didn\u2019t learn much when I was doing it because, like with Godzilla, it\u2019s not something I\u2019m up on,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>

\u201cBut I think the Marvel universe is something that I\u2019m learning a little bit more about because of watching The [Falcon and the] Winter Soldier. And I\u2019ll tell you, it was really fun to watch Wyatt.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were learning about this as we were watching that show \u2013 and to us, we\u2019re actors, so he\u2019s doing great \u2013 like, this guy\u2019s not supposed to be Captain America!<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to other people, those three episodes, they were going out of their minds. Like, \u2018This can\u2019t be! This is horrible!\u2019 Again, a slow burn. Like, hang on guys, it\u2019s not over yet!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were in love with me immediately,\u201d Wyatt joked, as Kurt insisted, \u201cI\u2019m here to verify!\u201d<\/p>\n

Kurt and Wyatt most recently starred together in Apple TV+\u2019s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters<\/a>, the new show in the MonsterVerse that focuses on the human story in a world overrun by Titans. The duo play younger and older versions of the same character.<\/p>\n

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Wyatt and Kurt Russell.<\/span><\/figcaption> Rodin Eckenroth\/WireImage<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Chatting about the challenge of that, Kurt explained: \u201cBecause it was a casting idea, the character was not written this way. There were templates, generalisations, where they wanted to go, but the character himself was not integral to the piece itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we were interested in doing it, we started attacking that with vigour, and that was probably the most important thing for us to do \u2013 to be able to find, through those conversations, what we\u2019re going to actually put on paper and what we were going to do, giving us the self-direction that we needed to definitely not fall into the father\/son trap, but fall into the same person.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Wyatt was going to lay him down first. So you have to know ahead what you\u2019re going to do. I was going to be following up whatever he laid down, so we needed to be in cahoots. And that\u2019s that was our challenge.\u201d<\/p>