Avengers star Sebastian Stan reveals Steve Rogers was setting Bucky Barnes ...

Avengers: Endgame star Sebastian Stan has revealed Steve Rogers was setting his right hand man Bucky Barnes ‘free’ by not gifting him the title of Captain America in the final moments of the film.

The I, Tonya actor, 36, said the superhero’s other close ally, Sam Wilson, was a more ‘trustworthy’ choice to take up the ‘responsibility’ of the coveted position.

Speaking at MCM London on Saturday, he revealed: ‘I think it makes a lot of sense. I really loved the enthusiasm in terms of Bucky getting the shield but it just doesn’t make sense for him.

Opening up: Avengers: Endgame star Sebastian Stan has revealed Steve Rogers was setting his right hand man Bucky Barnes ‘free’ by not gifting him the title of Captain America in the final moments of the film

Opening up: Avengers: Endgame star Sebastian Stan has revealed Steve Rogers was setting his right hand man Bucky Barnes ‘free’ by not gifting him the title of Captain America in the final moments of the film

‘I mean, in a way for me Steve not giving him the shield is a way of setting him free. And setting himself free.’

At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Captain America goes back in time to put all six Infinity Stones back in their places just seconds after they were taken by the Avengers to stop the titan Thanos.

But instead of coming back to the present day, Steve goes back in time again to live a life, it is implied, with Peggy Carter - who was his love interest throughout Captain America: The First Avenger.

Popular: Stan plays Bucky, AKA the Winter Soldier, in the epic Marvel adventure

Popular: Stan plays Bucky, AKA the Winter Soldier, in the epic Marvel adventure 

At the very end of the three-hour epic, a very old version of Steve (Chris Evans) reappears on a bench near the place he had disappeared from seconds earlier as a young man.

Here, he decides to pass on his shield, and it seems the moniker of Captain America, to his friend Sam Wilson

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