Who's Playing Steve Rogers in Marvel's What If...?

| August 12, 2021 |

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Steve Rogers In Hydra Stomper Suit In Marvel's What If...?

This article contains spoilers for Marvel'southward What If…? episode 1.

Some large MCU actors have returned to lend their voices to Marvel Studios' commencement animated project, What If…? , just before the bear witness started streaming on Disney+ it became articulate that non all the major players were upwardly for existence in the mix.

Chris Evans, who left Steve Rogers/Captain America backside afterward Avengers: Endgame , did non reprise his iconic role in the new show, so the creators looked to established vocalization actor Josh Keaton to accept upward the drape in the multiverse-busting season premiere, 'What If…Helm Carter Were The Starting time Avenger?', which imagined a timeline where Peggy Carter took the super soldier serum instead of Steve and became Captain Carter.

Keaton'south voice will already exist familiar to blitheness geeks and gamers. He's an admired vet, having brought his talents to Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane in Voltron: Legendary Defender , Peter Parker, Norman and Harry Osborn in various Spider-Homo projects, Jack Darby in Transformers: Prime , Ryu Hayabusa in Ninja Gaiden and Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid three: Ophidian Eater .

The activeness-packed beginning episode of What If…? was a hitting with Marvel fans, and the bulk were genuinely impressed with how close Keaton got to copying Evans' voice. It was a tricky process that required a high level of skill and deftness.

"The affair is, it'southward trying not to crash-land the audience too much and take information technology be as much of the person they retrieve from the testify, only having the actor bring a trivial something to themselves," managing director Bryan Andrews explained to Games Radar. "I'm not just doing an impression. Information technology'due south not about impressions, right? They take to actually act the moments and evangelize some of the emotional intent."

But while the absence of "retired" OG Avengers like Evans, Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson in What If…? was kind of understandable, in that location were still question marks surrounding the non-involvement of actors like Tom The netherlands, Zoe Saldana, Elizabeth Olsen and Dave Bautista, who plays Drax in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

"Allow's start with I was never asked," tweeted Bautista afterward a curious fan asked if the quondam professional wrestler would feature in What If…? .

Executive producer Brad Winderbaum eventually tried to explain the disruptive state of affairs with Bautista, remarking that information technology may accept been down to a "miscommunication".

"I saw that [comment] too," he told Variety. "Information technology's my agreement that everybody was asked in some way, shape or course, either through their agents or directly. I don't know really what happened behind the scenes there, just certainly, we would accept loved for him to exist in the show. So at that place's probably some miscommunication somewhere."

Other MCU player absences were brushed away every bit schedule conflicts.

"All of these people are extremely talented and they've got a lot of stuff going on," Andrews told Uproxx. "Nosotros figured we probably wouldn't be able to get everybody—but we got a lot, and that was great. And so aye, it'd be awesome to have everybody, but you've got to deal with what you've got to deal with. And if someone's too busy and they can't make it, it's a bummer."

Curiosity's What If…? is streaming weekly on Disney+.