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Team Cap members Chris Evans, Anthony Mackieand Sebastian Stan took to Beijing China to participate in an international press conference for Captain America: Civil War. Already the super bromance of the year, the guys alongside one half of the directing team, Joe Russo, addressed foreign press for a fun Q&A while Team Iron Man hit Europe early yesterday.

Here are the best tidbits from the event.

With Mackie describing the trio as B.F.F.’s, the relationship between Steve, Bucky and Sam is one that will be a huge driving force in the film. After Rogers finds himself on the opposite side of half the Avengers team, he relies on Sam to help him out while he rediscovers his bond with his best friend.

Chris Evans: It’s the first film we’ve got to explore the re-introduction of the past. Cap and Bucky have this friendship from their youth and it was really taken from them by war, tragically. As a result, both men have lost quite a bit, both men have seen battle and bled and have given up themselves. This is the first time we’ve actually seen these guys get a piece of their life back and how hard each one of them is willing to fight for it.

While in the comics, Cap’s fate has resulted in the Winter Soldier or Falcon taking up his shield, Mackie and Stan were asked if that were to come to pass how they think the two would settle who’d take up the mantle. They joked a bit but Mackie clarified that the comic and film universes aren’t entirely married.

Sebastian Stan: We’re gonna go out, probably have some drinks and figure this out.

Anthony Mackie: Over some rice wine. The cinematic universe doesn’t follow the comic universe. It’s sort of like a blueprint that Russo’s and Feige and everybody use and then make the cinematic universe. I think the 3 of us work so well together that I don’t know if Chris would give up the shield. I think right now we all have our own shield. I have my wings, he has his arm, and Chris has his shield. It all works together.

Before he was cast as Cap and after his turn as the Human Torch, Evans became known as a huge comic book geek who hung out at the Marvel offices because he was so interested in the universe as a fan. When asked if he was excited to work with Tom Holland as Spider-Man, Evans geeked out about the new take.

Chris EvansThe introduction of Spider-man in this film is the most exciting part of the movie. That’s saying something, this movie is riddled with exciting moments. It’s such a unique incarnation of the character. It’s the most youthful incarnation of Spider-Man, he’s actually a teenager. Tom Holland plays a very open, optimistic, eager and exciting youthful character as opposed to a broody incarnation, no disrespect to (Toby) Maguire or (Andrew) Garfield–brilliant actors. Tom really embodies this childlike innocence that he should have and I think being able to fight him in that airport sequence was really one of the highlights in my experience in the movie. It’s a character you didn’t think could make the cross. There was a lot of studio entanglement trying to get the property over to the Marvel world. So just to be able to combat, your fists being wound by webs and then having an interaction with Spider-Man–seeing the Spider-Man costume on set, it was exciting.

Captain America: Civil War has been referred to as Avengers 2.5 because it has a lot of Avengers in the film, Russo confirms that it does indeed have the most members of the team in it but it’s for motivated reasons.

Joe Russo: We brought Black Panther into the movie because he’s a free radical and can change things. He’s interested in what they’re interested in but not for the same reasons. Spider-Man and Ant-Man are in the movie because they don’t have the same level of stakes that the other characters have. Whats happening in the movie isn’t of the same importance to them as it is the other characters. So they could be much lighter, more humorous which varies up the tone. It was a very complicated job to balance all the characters but we thought a very necessary one. We wanted to challenge Cap in this movie. In the first film he was challenged by Hydra which was a very external threat, the second film he had to go against his superior’s at Shield, because he discovered that Shield was corrupt. In the third film we wanted to challenge him on a very personal, very emotional level and we felt the only way to do that was to bring his family into it, his new family and his old family. The two are in conflict in the film and he has to choose between them.

Captain America: Civil War opens May 6th in the U.S.

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