Captain America Brave New World Director Discusses Seth Rollins’ Cut Role

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Captain America Brave New World’s director has discussed WWE star Seth Rollins’ cut role from the upcoming movie.

During the filming of the upcoming fourth Captain America movie, it was reported that former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins had been cast in a role in the Serpent Society in the movie.

However, with the movie set to release next week, it has now been reported that reshoots had led to Rollins’ role in the movie being cut.

Speaking to Comicbook.com, the movie’s director Julius Onah discussed Rollins’ scrapped role in the movie.

He said:

“When you’re taking characters like Serpent Society from publishing, who, as you know, are individuals dressed up as snakes and have snake-adjacent powers, you’re always iterating and trying to figure out the version that totally works best in a movie like this. I love Seth, Seth’s incredible. But as we were evolving and we knew we had an additional photography period, just one that we did early on in the process that’s planned.

“We were trying to figure out, ‘Hey, who’s somebody that can bring a very specific kind of gravitas that works with this tone?’ And when Giancarlo became available, it was such a no-brainer. I have a very particular history with him. He’s iconic for working with Spike Lee. I interned with Spike Lee when I was 19 years old.

“And, of course, fans have been fan-casting him for a long time in the MCU. So it’s really about making sure that all the elements worked in the grounded tone and vision that I have for this film. And as we evolved and iterated, Giancarlo just made sense. And what a blessing to have in this film.”

Rollins isn’t the only former WWE Champion to be cast in a Marvel project recently, with Big E recently being cast in the new ‘Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man’ show.

A major match involving Seth Rollins is reportedly set for WrestleMania 41, which you can see here.

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