Few MCU villains can be said to have won at the end of their movie. But Daniel Brühl’s character Helmut Zemo actually did manage to accomplish his goal inCaptain America: Civil Warwhen he forced the Avengers to break up. Now, Zemo is appearing in a new avatar as Baron Zemo in the upcomingThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier. In an interview with Empire Magazine, Brühl hinted that the purple mask he is shown to be wearing on the new show is a signal that the character is now a changed man.
“It’snot just the mask, it’s the costume. It does something with him as a whole. He’s evolved. He’s a different man now.”
In the trailers released for the show so far, we have heard Zemo declare that he wants to see a world without superheroes. Clearly, the man has updated his ambitions from breaking up the Avengers to eliminating superheroes altogether. In a past interview,Daniel Brühlhad explained how his re-entry into the MCU came to be.
“Whilst I was shooting Angel of Darkness, I got the news that they wanted me to come back to shoot The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I remember that Kari Skogland, the director, came to Budapest, and we recorded something with me being Zemo, and I was very happy and enthusiastic to see the mask. I was incredibly thrilled to go back because I remember that I had a lot of fun being in something completely different and getting to explore theMCUand become part of that. I have the fondest memories of collaborating with all of these wonderful actors, and to see Sebastian Stan again, and Anthony Mackie this time around, and to come back to something which, on the one hand, felt common and known, and on the other hand, being something completely new and something fresh.”
While Sam Wilson aka The Falcon has not had a lot of personal dealings with Zemo,Bucky Barnesaka The Winter Soldier has deep ties to the Baron. It was Zemo who submerged Bucky once again under his assassin persona inCivil Warby triggering his brainwashing process with the utterance of a specific set of words.
Due to Zemo’s manipulation of Bucky, and Bucky’s subsequent escape from SHIELD, Steve Rogers was forced to side with his old friend over Iron Man, which led to the breaking up of the Avengers. Bucky is sure to feel a great deal of anger towardsZemodue to those events, which gives him a strong personal stake in taking down the Baron inThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Directed by Kari Skogland,The Falcon and the Winter Soldierfeatures a lead cast consisting of Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp, Wyatt Russell, Noah Mills, Carl Lumbly, and Daniel Brühl. The series is set to premiere on March 19 on Disney+. This news arrives fromEmpire Online.
