Warning: possible Captain America: Civil War spoilers follow
Actor, filmmaker and occasional cock-er-knee geezer, Don Cheadle is a man of many parts. He has two upcoming releases in April that showcase his substantial range. First comes Miles Ahead, a jazz odyssey through the life of Miles Davis that he’s directing and starring in, followed by a reprise of Rhodey in Captain America: Civil War. Expect serious Cheadle upheaval in the Marvelverse, the actor warns in this month’s Empire Interview.
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“They’ve got good reason to think so,” says Cheadle of Redditors' belief that Colonel James Rupert Rhodes will be scoring a plot in Arlington in this movie. “Doesn’t look good for Rhodey,” he adds with a laugh. “He did hit the ground kind of hard!"
Of course, Marvel has not been shy of showing War Machine's potentially terminal scene unfolding in the trailers to date. A curveball? Rhodey would certainly be the highest-profile casualty in the MCU, excepting perhaps Quicksilver and 67,000 Chitauri.
Cheadle has an interesting slant on the whole Terrence Howard-shaped elephant in the room. “It looked different to what it was,” he explains of the passing of the torch, “- that I had moved Terrence Howard out of a seat. But that’s not what happened at all. He was not coming back and there was an open seat and I was asked to fill it."
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