Yahoo Lifestyle Anthony Mackie Would Recruit Rachael Ray to Join His Personal Team of Avengers: 'I'm in Love' (Exclusive)
"She has her own pots, her own [seasoning] and she's cute," Anthony Mackie says of wishing the celebrity chef could join his ideal lineup
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Anthony Mackie and Rachael RayIf it were up to Anthony Mackie, the Avengers would have a great cook in their lineup.
While speaking with PEOPLE following his appearance at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 on Saturday, July 27, to promote the next Captain America movie, the actor, 45, said he would select Rachael Ray to join his own personal lineup of Avengers.
"This might surprise you. Rachel Ray. I f------ love Rachael Ray," Mackie says. "She can cook for everybody. She has her own pots, her own [seasoning] and she's cute. She's like a little Dora the Explorer type thing, right? So she can hook it up. And I'm in love, hello?"
So I can be like, 'I'm going to go fight for you girl. I'm going to run out, fight, come back. What's up with that pasta, though?' " he added.
Mackie, when given an opportunity to select anyone — not just Marvel characters — for his dream Avengers lineup, tells PEOPLE he would also include his barber in New Orleans, Wade, as well as a friend of his named Jessica from Miami. Former president Barack Obama also made the cut.
"I would recruit Obama because everybody like Obama — we need a leader, he would tell us what to do. Then I would get the Incredible Hulk because he's Incredible Hulk — so he'd beat everybody up," Mackie shares. "So those are my Avengers. Very specific reasons."
Related: Harrison Ford Says He 'Wanted a Piece of the Action' While Previewing Next Captain America Movie
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Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford on July 27, 2024Mackie's Captain America: Brave New World costars Tim Blake Nelson, Danny Ramirez, Giancarlo Esposito and Harrison Ford joined him and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige in San Diego to preview Mackie's upcoming movie, which sees his character Sam Wilson continue to step into Steve Rogers' shoes as Captain America.
Ford features in the upcoming film as the character Thaddeus Ross, who is now the U.S. president. He takes over the role from the late William Hurt, who died in 2022.
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"Well, if you've seen any of the movies before, you know, Sam Wilson was a military counselor. So he's he's a soldier that has to deal with his smarts and his wits instead of his brute force," Wilson tells PEOPLE of how he approached his new version of Captain America. (Sam Wilson first appeared in 2014's The Winter Soldier.)
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Tim Blake Nelson, Danny Ramirez, Giancarlo Esposito, and Anthony Mackie at Comic-Con"So it's more of a tired and more of introspective Captain America instead of a go in and you know, break everything down Captain America," he adds. "So he's very different than the original."
Captain America: Brave New World, directed by Julius Onah, releases in theaters on Feb. 14, 2025.
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