Sebastian Stan & Chris Evans on Steve/Bucky Stucky

Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans discuss the bond between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, exploring their shared trauma, guilt, and love as brothers-in-arms.

Key Takeaways

The Steve–Bucky relationship is the emotional core of their characters, driven by shared trauma and loyalty.
Both characters' guilt and displacement make their bond a survival mechanism as much as a friendship.
The actors frame the dynamic as love in a brotherly sense, rooted in shared wartime experience.
The films deliberately let Bucky show selfishness and darkness, departing from Steve's usual selflessness.

What the video covers

Steve Rogers's relationship with Bucky Barnes is presented as deeply personal, with Bucky representing Steve's original family and past.
Steve tends to suppress emotion for the greater good, but Bucky is the exception where personal feelings cloud his judgment.
Both characters are 'men out of time' who were displaced into a new world and have only each other to connect to.
Steve suffers survivor's guilt over failing to go after Bucky when he fell from the train.
Bucky carries guilt and trauma from his years of being brainwashed and the violence he committed.
The actors describe their bond as a love story and a brotherhood forged through war, comparable to real soldiers' bonds.
Evans and Stan note the relationship is among the most rewarding dynamics for them to portray in the Marvel universe.
The discussion covers how the films moved Bucky from a loyal, somewhat impulsive sidekick to a more selfish, independent character.
Comic book differences are touched on, including the death of Steve Rogers and its effect on Bucky's motivation.
The interview also touches on the actors' long working relationship and comfort with each other after roughly seven years.

Chapters

What do the actors say makes the Steve and Bucky relationship unique?

They describe it as a deep brotherhood rooted in shared childhood, wartime experience, and displacement from their past. Evans says it is a love story, though he notes the definition of that love is up to the viewer.

How does the video describe Steve's guilt regarding Bucky?

Steve is haunted by never going after Bucky when he fell from the train, which the actors compare to a family member going missing without closure. This survivor's guilt drives much of his personal motivation.

How does Bucky's character change in the films according to the discussion?

Bucky is portrayed as more selfish and impulsive compared to Steve's selflessness, departing from his earlier loyal and protective portrayal. The actors see this as a deliberate choice to add darkness and conflict.

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[Music] how does the relationship between Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes play out in this particular story it's very relevant you know it's it's it's it's a very personal struggle for Steve Steve always tries to take his emotions out of the equation he

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always tries to think of the greater good and when it comes to Bucky it's a very personal situation and so um it's easy to become human and to let your emotions uh fog and Cloud your judgment and and Bucky represents something from

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his past that no one else can match I don't care how strong his bonds are with his current family Bucky is his original family and and that that can take precedence they have this thing in common which is that they're both men

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out of time you know they're thrown into this whole different world and without anything to connect to in their in their past and so except for each other and so and they also you know he goes he's going through a lot of Sur suror guilt

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and and my character is dealing with everything he's you know he's done so to speak in the last few years or whatever decades that he's been brainwashed so in a way that you the very similar well I was wondering who taught Steve Rogers

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had to be a good person to be a leader sure that's a good question you know I I think part of it is that it was intrinsically always in him that's part of the reason he was chosen to have the

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super soldier serum experiment done that that his nature is to be a good man and a leader but I think his friend Bucky plays a big role in that oh we got some Bucky fans yeah I I I think I think his

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friendship with Bucky has always inspired him to to be a good man Steve and Bucky that went to volir to get the Soul Stone what do you think is going to happen good question did the same thing that did

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wow um he would probably be like I got this you know and I would have been like no it's my I should be doing it no I think I think it would have been a fight and you know I probably would have

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I would have tried to you know it would I should be the one after everything to take to take the leap so to speak but knowing him he probably wouldn't let me but I don't know yeah I think it is I

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think it's it's it it is a love story you know I I I obviously we're not we're not going broke back you know you know what I mean but but I I think it's about two people who grew up together they're

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brothers and they they they were friends when they were children they went to war together they you know they they risked their lives they had each other's backs I think anytime I think if you asked any Soldier who's fought in a battlefield

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with someone else you would say they would say that that is their brother for life and that they love them deeply well the thing that people forget is that both of these guys are dealing with serious traumatic uh um issues um

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post-traumatic issues and guilt uh issues um Steve is haunted by the fact that he never went after Bucky when when Bucky fell off the train um and he's he suffers from survivors guilt and in a way it's a little bit of that similar to

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a person who whose family member goes missing and they never really settle you know they never they don't know they don't really kind of settle into what really happened um and I think it's similar like that for Steve and and

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also that he feels responsible for it he just shouted what about [Applause] Bucky hey hey hey Bucky is my boy I mean obviously I got a lot I got a lot of love for bucky bucky I love it maybe the three of you could

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but at least I've been able to reconnect with Bucky Peggy is Peggy is a lost love and and I I think that's yeah so can I just but what about bucky bucky hey man you know I love me some

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buy can I just you go can I it's different because in the comic books Steve Rogers dies and that is actually something that really motivated the Bucky Barnes character to to to make sure to carry that on it was the probably the the way

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he would have felt most closest to him if he died but that's you know we're in a different kind of world so how's that explanation looking forward to reading about this on the internet l let's go back to the beginning right so

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Steve Rogers is obviously motivated by preserving the friendship that he has with this guy from the 1940s that's the last piece of his his history his home uh so so he he certainly prioritizes that over the the current family he has

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today I've always approached that relationship as as being very close and and one of family you know that was my take to it you know um but uh and and and those characters are very interlined because they are the only

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thing they have um to remind them of a past that no longer exists I mean again our approach to those scenes my Approach To those scenes was always to find the truth to it and the truth was that these guys are

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actually experiencing something extremely traumatic if you're actually looking at the truth of their experience and you're taking away all the glitter and the glamour of a superhero superpower whatever you want to call it you're talking about two people that are

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like entirely ripped from a world thrown into another and are just doing their best to make the right decisions and all they have is each other to look to each other and that journey is what it is you

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know but is it love for sure it's love however you want to Define that love is up to you you know Seb and I have known each other for a long long time now we've been doing this for you know almost seven years so

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it's it's it's old hat now and there there's certainly a comfort level and and I I think my relationship you know Steve's relationship with Bucky is my my favorite you know in in the in the in the Marvel universe that I've been able

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to to convey so so anytime we get to kind of color in those moments uh given all that we've gone through it's it's the most you know rewarding as an actor and I think it's the most rewarding for

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Steve aside from the fact that they have history together obviously they grew up as as friends in Brooklyn so they they have a past but I think they both lost quite a bit I think they both feel out

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of place I think they both feel lonely more often than not uh confused I think there's there's been a lot of uh similar life experiences even though we've both kind of been in different parts of the world for the last 70 years I think

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we're both kind of uh missing a piece of our hearts and and I think uh to try and find a piece of that friendship from the 1940s is is worth uh the fight and the struggle and the conflict that both of

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us endure and he was written that you know he he loves Steve Rogers and Captain America but at the same time you know I mean what are you going to do you're this guy that comes in a suit

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suddenly and you know things are just going to get better have you ever seen someone's head blown off you know what I mean I think he's very real about certain things so I think there's been a lot of change and growth I mean it's

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it's been tricky because you have a guy who's very selfless and he's he's very um uh um um magnanimous and he he's just he's he's he's the biggest guy in the room um emotionally and and with with uh

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in terms of maturity uh so it's hard to find Darkness it's hard to find conflict and I think with this film they they did a good job of um instead of taking a guy who always does what everybody needs he

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kind of did in this film what he wants and that that's kind of a departure for him and and I think it on film I think it looks like it's the first time we've seen Cy a little selfish Bucky in the in

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the first movie was he was Earnest he was sort of Loy he was loyal he was all the he was all those things but he he was you know he had flaws and he had sort of tendencies that he hadn't worked

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out and and he was questioning sort of why he was going to War and why he was fighting he was very protective of Steve and and uh to some extent uh uh narrow-minded of of you know what Steve

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really wanted because he always had this big brother thing I know better you know and it's it's the so anyone can sort of this is an exaggeration but anyone can sort of end up a darker version of themselves even in in the way that their

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relationship was depicted in the comic books and how Bucky was younger and so on I mean he was always is the guy that was sort of doing the Dirty Work you know behind sort of behind the scenes um and

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and cap had an image to protect and and so and Bucky didn't Bucky could you know explore his angry Tendencies on the battlefield and was sometimes trigger happy and was very impulsive and um and so I felt like that

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was like gold a gold mine for me to discover Chris is just you know he's a really besides just being a great guy to be around and and bringing awesome energy um which you feed off of and then like

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you find a you find a Groove which which so often these things become you know it's all kind of a choreog choreography so it's sort of it's sort of like a dance that you that you share with somebody and

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um there's there's so many little technicalities about spacing and kind of energy and speed and sort of the whole thing like crescends into a whole different piece and then it moves into a slower section I mean so it's like if

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you have someone that you can Vibe with to do that then it's great and and uh we had that on the first one and I mean you know I've seen him on and off over the years but for us to come back

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and kind of pick up where we left off was very easy on team cap we have uh me we have Falcon we have Scarlet Witch we have Antman we have uh I was going to say Sebastian we have the Winter Soldier I'd

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probably have to be the quarterback maybe maybe Seb can be a running back good stiff arm well it's funny I I think if you look at Sam he just really does not understand why we're helping Bucky like we just need to get rid of Bucky

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because he's a nuisance and a bad person uh but you know the reality of it is he Bucky and Steve have a bond and a kindred spirit that they've had since they were kids and um Sam understands and appreciates that that's why he

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always goes with cap to help Buck St Bucky come on you kidding me close your eyes clear your mind who are best friends in the Marvel Universe you would immediately jump to these right because it was that idea that bonded them

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together from so long what the movies got so right was showing that relationship go from him looking up to Bucky seeing you know Bucky be that GI that he wanted to be so badly and then him surpassing him in such an

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interesting way but still having that friendship yeah and you said I mean you see it perfectly in endgame right where where he's fighting himself and the only thing that he can break his concentration with is telling him that

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Bucky is still alive

Topics:Steve RogersBucky BarnesChris EvansSebastian StanCaptain AmericaWinter SoldierMarvelsuperhero friendshipcharacter analysisMarvel interview

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