Actor Anthony Mackie, who plays the latest incarnation of Marvel’s Captain America in “Captain America: Brave New World,” warned that American masculinity is both necessary and exceptional.
Mackie has brought countless headlines in recent months, after he iconic role of Captain America From his popular predecessor, Chris Evans, in Marvel films. On Tuesday, “The Pivot Podcast” published an extensive interview in which the actor spoke about both his career and his personal life, including how he raises his sons.
“In the past 20 years we have lived through the death of the American man,” said Mackie. “They literally killed masculinity in our houses and our communities, for some reason, but I raised my boys to be young men.”
He explained that he believes that being young men is both maturity and the ability to be a protector.
Actor Anthony Mackie spoke about the pivot podcast about the importance of masculinity.
“My boys will always be respectful,” he said, explained how he learned his sons from a young age to have good manners and take care of their mother. “Every time I left for a job, I would say my 15-year-old:” You are the man of the house. You ensure that these doors are locked every night, this alarm is on, your text me, or you call me every night before you go to bed and you wake up. “
“Because we are men,” Mackie continued. “If I am not there to protect, he must be there to protect. Because you can have all the money in the world, if a mother — there (sic) climb through the window, that money means nothing. You can have all the ‘celebrity’ in the world (if a) mother-or jump through the door, that ‘celebrity’ means nothing. So you have a small guard.
Mackie argued the “idea of American masculinity Is very different from other countries.
“You feel it when you go to Europe,” he said, and noticed how stunned he is when he meets European men. Mackie revealed that he often thinks that “I could break your ass, boy”, a joke with one “pivot” co-host about Europeans who wear “tight pants”.
Actors Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford played in “Captain America: Brave New World.” (Getty Images)
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Even in Africa, the experienced film star said, the American masculinity certainly feels different. He noted that when he was in Kenya, a spectator told him: “You are not here from here” and he replied: “I can see that I am not from here.”
“It’s just that. That masculine masculinity is something that I think is very important for boys, because our little boys are now afraid of failing, so they don’t try,” Mackie complained.
Mackie has made waves by talking about masculinity earlier. During an appearance on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’, he and the host spoke about their mutual support for ‘traditional’ gender roles. He said he believes that a man is someone who protects, does garden work and who performs certain courtesy for a lady, while a woman in turn does things like “Make daddy a sandwich.”
When a fellow guest lord about “The Pivot Podcast” noted that many young men no longer know how to approach women personally, Mackie argued that women themselves are partly to blame.
Madrid, Spain – January 28: Anthony Mackie attends the press conference for “Captáin América: Brave New World” in Rosewood Villamagna Hotel on January 28, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty images for Disney)
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“Women have … they are so mean and so angry,” said Mackie.
He then shared an anecdote about how he saw his cousin approaching a woman, politely and said, “Pardon, how are you?” She responded with a sound of disgust.
“How do you get back from that?” He asked while the co-hosts laughed. “He just walked towards me, I gave him his beer, I had something like that” you go there Bro. That didn’t happen. That didn’t happen. Let’s start again. “
