{"id":189392,"date":"2025-10-10T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189392\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:48:08","slug":"2-mcu-stars-address-possible-return-after-lengthy-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189392\/","title":{"rendered":"2 MCU Stars Address Possible Return After Lengthy Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel Studios<\/a> is no stranger to bringing back Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> characters after a lengthy hiatus, such as William Hurt\u2019s Thaddeus \u201cThunderbolt\u201d Ross in Captain America: Civil War or Krysten Ritter\u2019s Jessica Jones in the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again Season 2. Ahead of the next two star-studded Avengers movies, two more alums are making it known that they want to return to the MCU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which two MCU alums are ready to return?<\/p>\n

While promoting their new AppleTV+ series, The Last Frontier, Dominic Cooper<\/a> and Alfre Woodard<\/a> both revealed that they are ready to rejoin the MCU. Cooper has been part of the MCU since its first phase, appearing as a young Howard Stark in the film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and the television series Agent Carter (2015-16) and What If\u2026? (2021-24). As for Woodard, she is best known for portraying Mariah Stokes Dillard\/Black Mariah in Luke Cage (2016-18), although she also had a cameo in Captain America: Civil War (2016) as a different character, Miram Sharpe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m still good friends with [Marvel<\/a>]. I don\u2019t know whether there\u2019s a world\u2026because I\u2019m stuck in the \u201950s,\u201d explained Cooper to ComicBookMovie<\/a> as to why his MCU return is doubtful. \u201cAnd there\u2019s another actor [John Slattery] who plays [an older] him with Robert Downey Jr., so it\u2019s quite sad. There was the TV show [Agent Carter] that was really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Slattery portraying Howard Stark from the 1970s on in the MCU, Cooper remains interested in revisiting the role, largely \u201cbecause he\u2019s an amazing character. He\u2019s such fun, but he\u2019s from a certain time.\u201d The actor added, \u201cI look back on Captain America and the Marvel world\u2026you\u2019re thrown into it at the time, and you don\u2019t realise what an incredible thing it is to be part of. To get to have been with Stan [Lee]. To do a scene with him and be like, \u2018Oh, really? You wrote those comics?\u2019 It was cool. Now, I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow.\u2019 I really hope I get the option to play him again because he\u2019s really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Woodard, she would be down to come back as either Mariah or Miriam in the MCU. \u201cI would go back in a heartbeat, but Cheo [Hodari Coker] and I were talking about, \u2018Oh, they hated to see Mariah go because she was so wonderfully compromised and fine with it.\u2019 I said, \u2018No, she\u2019s got to go.\u2019 I didn\u2019t want her rehabilitated so she could stay on the show,\u201d she explained, noting that the only possible way to bring Mariah back would be through \u201cflashbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodard shared that she \u201cwould love [to return as Miriam],\u201d which was a role she got because she was \u201cclose friends\u201d with Robert Downey Jr. She recalled, \u201cHe had that one scene where he meets the mother, and he said, \u2018You know, Tony Stark is giving up a lot to actually agree to this program of coming in cahoots with the government, so it has to happen in that scene.\u2019 Something has to happen that allows him to do that, and he asked for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Captain America: The First Avenger, Agent Carter, Luke Cage, Captain America: Civil War, and What If\u2026? are available to stream on Disney+, while The Last Frontier premieres on Apple TV+ on October 10, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Studios is no stranger to bringing back Marvel Cinematic Universe characters after a lengthy hiatus, such as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[83236,83237,96,5396,6461,5228,7468,2839,3513,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-189392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alfre-woodard","tag-dominic-cooper","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-tv-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}