Captain America: Brave New World's Sidewinder actor Giancarlo Esposito has opened up on the character he was originally "prepped" to play in the Marvel movie – and revealed why the team behind the Anthony Mackie-led sequel switched things up in the reshoots.
In a new interview with Collider, the Breaking Bad actor said that producer Nate Moore had initially approached him about bringing Klaus Voorhees AKA King Cobra to life. In the comics, Voorhees is an ex-convict who gets bitten by a radioactive snake when his plot to murder his co-worker, medical researcher Professor Ezekiel Shecktor, goes awry. He's best known for facing off against Thor, Daredevil, and Mr. Fantastic, and has unsurprisingly had run-ins with Captain America and Falcon.
"If I'm walking around the neighborhood, African-Americans go, 'What's up, King?' I love it. They call me King, baby! I mean, that's the highest honor," Esposito recalled thinking in those early days. "But as it turned out, there [are other Kings] in the Marvel world, and this was connected to the Serpent Society — they were going back to the comics and trying to figure it out, and Nate said, 'We can give you all the characteristics of King, but we think he should be Sidewinder.'
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