"Obviously I’d love to be inserted anywhere I could, but I haven’t been told anything." I’d love to be in future films," he says. Simpkins says he hasn't heard anything either way, but he'd jump at the opportunity to return to the MCU for a meatier role.
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Everyday FilmsĪfter Harley's brief cameo in Avengers: Endgame, plenty of Marvel fans wondered if the movie might be setting him up to play a larger role later on. Simpkins also stars in 'Summer Lightning,' which is streaming now on Amazon. "At the end there it started seeping out of me a little bit," Simpkins says, "just because we filmed that in November 2017 and it came out in 2019."
Simpkins says it wasn't particularly difficult at earlier on, especially before Infinity War's release when the concept of Iron Man's death felt far off and intangible, but as Endgame got closer, it became harder to keep his spoiler from slipping out. Of course, that didn't make keeping Marvel's big secret any easier. I knew when I showed up on set what was gonna happen, and then I gathered little bits and pieces of the plot from the rest of the cast." "For people who were auditioning for roles, they told everyone it was a wedding, but I knew ahead of time.
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"Wedding was like the code word they were using with the crew and some of the cast," he says. After Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland (who has a reputation for spilling important details) revealed that someone actually told him he was filming Tony Stark's wedding, not his funeral, to keep the movie's ending a secret.īut according to Simpkins, most cast and crew members were aware of what was happening. In interviews, actors often joke about " Marvel snipers" to get out of questions verging into spoiler territory. Marvel is famously secretive about the twists and turns of each upcoming movie. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images "I was talking to him a little bit about how excited I am to be in the film and how much the character of Iron Man meant to me through my entire life," Simpkins says. (the two have stayed in touch and check-in periodically).
So then he just told me I’m gonna be at the funeral."Īs soon as Simpkins hung up, he reached out to Robert Downey Jr. "He walked me through how they get to a point where they’re fighting Thanos and then at the end Iron Man dies. "He just kind of talked me through the general plot leading up to the scene that I was in," Simpkins says. Then, Simpkins got another call from Marvel Studios co-president Louis D'Esposito. Later that week, his manager confirmed the news. There was a possibility Marvel Studios wanted to bring back Harley for the final movie in the Infinity Saga. Years later, Simpkins was practicing lines in his car before another audition when his manager called. In 2013, Simpkins starred in Iron Man 3 as Harley, a young boy who winds up helping a struggling Iron an rebuild his suit and finds a father figure in the process.
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