Avengers: Endgame Directors Wanted Red Skull to Be Similar to This Legendary Star Wars Character

The Red Skull made a surprise return in Avengers: Infinity War played by Johann Schmidt. Then, the character appeared once again in Endgame, but this time, he was played by actor Ross Marquand. Originally played by Hugo Weaving in Captain America: The First Avenger, Marquand reveals that he had a pretty unique direction from the Russo brothers to embody the Red Skull.

"Anthony and Joe Russo both came to me when we were recording it and said, 'We want you to take Hugo's Johann and Red Skull and infuse him with a bit of Yoda,'" Marquand told Nerds4Life. "That's exactly what they said."

"It was a thing of, he's a wise soul. He's 84 years older, but he's also an apparition," the actor continued. "He's kind of a ghost at this point. He's no longer the diabolical, ambitious man that we know him as in 1944. He's a complicated anti-hero."

Marquand says he thinks it was a "fun" take on the character because Red Skull is a "cursed man" and he's "so broken" as well, which the actor admits is the kind of character that he loves to play.

As for whether or not Red Skull will make his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe once again, Marquand says the Soul Stone has been taken, so his character is basically free. "I would imagine the first thing he would do if he still has a vendetta, or if any part of him still has ambition, would go back to Earth," he said.

Marquand appears in the tenth season of The Walking Dead, which airs on AMC every Sunday night.

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