Frank Grillo Talks Filming Crossbones Fight Scene In Captain America: Civil War

When production began on ‘Captain America: Civil War’ it began with the very public filming of a major set piece which involved a big clash between Chris Evans’ Cap and Frank Grillo’s Brock Rumlow, now as the costumed villain Crossbones.

Grillo’s Rumlow played a SHIELD-turned-Hydra agent in 2014’s 'The Winter Soldier’ and ended the film heavily scarred after the destruction of the Triskelion. In next year’s sequel he returns in more familiar garb.

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Speaking with Collider, Grillo hasn’t expanded on the context of the fight but did talk about the experience of filming it.

“It’s just what you would imagine it to be,” he said. “Me and [Chris] Evans were doing this scene for days, where we were supposed to be in a certain part of the world and they recreated that world. There were hundreds of extras, and there we were in the centre of it.

”[Robert] Downey wanted to come down and watch us do the scene. So, at one point, I turn around and Downey is there and [Jeremy] Renner was there and Paul Rudd had just come down, and they were all watching us do our thing. I was like 'Wow, this is special! This is really cool!’“

If there’s anything to be deciphered from what he said, it’s that "a certain part of the world” could well mean Wakanda - as had been rumoured when the scene was being shot.

Wakanda is of course the fictional home nation of Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther, a character that will debut in 'Civil War’. If the fight’s setting is a non-fictional country there’d have been little reason not to say it, unless Grillo was being especially sensitive about spoilers.

The actor also spoke about the process of fitting the comic costume which will be familiar to fans.

“There were seven different fittings. I was doing another movie, and they flew out. It was top secret. They came in with briefcases and I was like, 'Really?! For a helmet?!’ And then, when I went in my trailer and saw it and put it on, it changed my whole DNA. It’s amazing!”

Grillo also admitted what many had suspected, that his role in the film won’t be a particularly large one. “This movie is such a big movie with a lot of people in it, so you don’t get as much of the time that you’d like to have. But it’s all good.”

'Captain America: Civil War’ will be released on 29 April 2016.

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