Secret Invasion Star Don Cheadle Reveals Struggle Machine’s Shocking New MCU Function

It could nonetheless be some time earlier than we see Marvel’s Armor Wars film come to fruition, however followers will not have to attend very lengthy to see the subsequent chapter of Rhodey’s story within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. James “Rhodey” Rhodes is ready to have a considerable function in Secret Invasion, the thriller collection that debuts on Disney+ in June. Since his temporary look in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Rhodey has been as much as fairly a bit, together with taking up an enormous function inside america authorities.

Whereas chatting with EW about his function in Secret Invasion, longtime MCU star Don Cheadle explains that Rhodey has risen via the ranks and is basically the “righthand to the president. Primarily based on some set pictures from Secret Invasion‘s manufacturing, the president in query seems to be President Ritson, a brand new MCU character performed by Dermot Mulroney.

Rhodey’s new function within the authorities will put him in troublesome state of affairs with Nick Fury, who’s performed by Cheadle’s real-life buddy Samuel L. Jackson. “On this one, he finds himself in a roundabout way at odds however considerably on the opposite facet of the place Fury is,” Cheadle mentioned.

Secret Invasion is predicated on the traditional Marvel Comics story concerning the shapeshifting Skrulls infiltrating Earth. With Fury working alongside among the Skrulls, it is comprehensible that he’d be pushing up in opposition to folks just like the president.

Cheadle went on to say that Secret Invasion is totally different from lots of the MCU titles which have come earlier than, evaluating it on to spy movies like The Bourne Identification.

“It speaks to the elasticity of what the MCU could be,” he added. “This one feels a lot nearer to a film like Bourne Identification or one thing that is extra alongside the tone of a ’70s film. It isn’t as a lot concerning the bells and whistles of huge particular results. It is extra concerning the intrigue and drama, the espionage and double-crosses. And I nonetheless suppose it matches completely with what the MCU is ready to do and pull off.”

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Secret Invasion debuts on Disney+ on June twenty fourth.