Captain America: Brave New World Director Praises Seth Rollins, Wants To Work With Him Again

Seth Rollins may not have ended up on screen in Captain America: Brave New World, but the director says he’d work with him again at any time. Rollins’ role in the MCU film was ultimately cut, and Julius Onah spoke with Collider about working with Rollins and more. You can see highlights below:

On Rollins’ role being cut: “In terms of the Seth Rollins of it all, he was a character that was just going to feature in the opening of the movie. Seth is amazing. Incredible. I would work with him again in a heartbeat, but as we were iterating on the movie, it was very clear that some of the tonal things that we were playing with the original iteration of Serpent Society had to fit even more closely in the mold with the rest of the movie. We always knew that we were going to be coming back to potentially refine that. When our additional photography period came, we just thought through what helps us ground this character and still nod towards things that feel a bit heightened. And Giancarlo [Esposito] is so good about walking that fine line between larger than life but still feeling human. It became — I’ve said this over and over — something of a no-brainer.”

On working with Rollins: “Seth is amazing. I know I’m going to want to work with him, and hopefully, will work with him, again. He’s just such a phenomenal guy and obviously an incredible performer.”