Captain America’s Frank Grillo Talks Returning for Civil War & the Crossbones Suit

Last week we had the pleasure of interviewing actor Frank Grillo. Grillo made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Brock Rumlow (aka Crossbones) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier two years ago. He reprised the role for Captain America: Civil War, which was released last Friday in the United States (our interview with him took place on the Tuesday of that week).

While Rumlow’s contribution to The Winter Soldier was significant, Grillo never actually got to don the iconic Crossbones suit in that movie. However, he was finally given the opportunity to wear the suit in Civil War.

“The suit, I think, is the coolest part of Civil War,” he said. “I love Crossbones and I love the way they brought him back as far as the look. Unfortunately he’s not in the movie as much as I’d like him to be. That’s the only downside of it but his impact is felt throughout the movie which is great.

“It’s part of the business,” he said. “Sometimes you don’t get to do the movie as much as you want.”

The last fans saw of Rumlow in The Winter Soldier was the character badly burned and scarred following his fight with The Falcon. On the subject of what Rumlow’s objectives were in Civil War following the events of The Winter Soldier, Grillo said, “I think there’s two things. I think one is revenge. He was friends with Steve Rogers so I think revenge is part of it and I think on the bigger broader scope is to start a problem between the Avengers that would create mayhem. I think if there’s a plot device in Crossbones that’s it.”

Finally, Grillo talked about the contract he signed with Marvel Studios when he originally landed the role and whether he knew he would be playing Rumlow in more than one movie. He said, “Yes, I did. I signed on for six movies and when we sat down with Marvel in the beginning it was an origin story. We were expecting to see Brock Rumlow and see more of him with the way it was presented.”

He added, “After Cap 2 was so successful and the Russo’s took over I think Civil War became something that really came on strong and they wanted to develop that story. Marvel doesn’t necessarily stick to the comic mythology in the comic books but they do use the characters in different ways.”

You can listen to these extracts from our interview with Frank Grillo below (and our full interview with him further down the page):

Captain America: Civil War is out in cinemas now.

Thoughts on what Frank said? What did you think of Crossbones’ role in Captain America: Civil War?

By Ruari Williamson

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