Seth Rollins Wasn’t Bothered That He Was Cut From Captain America: Brave New World

Seth Rollins was originally set to be part of Captain America: Brave New World but his role was cut, and he recently explained why he’s okay with that. Rollins was set to play a member of the Serpents in the MCU film, but as he explained in an interview on Not Just Football with Cam Heyward he was cut after the script was reconfigured, resulting in Giancarlo Esposito taking a similar role to the one he was set to play. You can see highlights below, per Fightful:

On being cut from the film: “I wasn’t gonna talk about it too much because I never know what I can say. But I saw the director had an interview this week, Julius Onah, who’s a phenomenal dude. He did an interview, and they asked him about my role and what happened with it and stuff like that, so I feel like I can talk about it a little bit more. Basically, I got repurposed for Giancarlo Esposito, who is a hell of an actor, special cat. So to lose out to him doesn’t hurt my feelings. The bottom line is, the movie went through a lot of adjustments. The original script is not the script that they ended up with. My character itself, I don’t know if it got repurposed or if it just got scrapped and a whole new thing went in there. But I had a great time filming with those guys.”

On filming for the movie: “We did some really cool stuff that’s on the cutting room floor. I hope that somehow it lives in Easter egg form somewhere. I’d love to see some of the shots of that. I won’t give away too much, but it was a great experience. But yeah, they cut me. They cut me from the role. They’ve cut the family. My wife [Becky Lynch] had a role in ‘Eternals’, she did a post-credit scene for the original ‘Eternals’ film. The ‘Eternals’ franchise was intended to be multiple films, and she was supposed to be involved in that, and they cut her too. They cut the whole family, man.”