Despite backlash from renowned filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, MCU actors continue to support and appreciate their work.

Next year will see Sebastian Stan step onto the screen as Bucky Barnes, AKA the Winter Soldier, for the first time in almost half a decade in Marvel's Thunderbolts * – and the actor says he never could have guessed where the character would end up.

I think if Marvel was gone, it’d be such a big hole to try and fill up. Don’t just go out there and shit on something without offering something better.” Stan previously admitted to feeling “protective” of Marvel Studios,