ROGERS: Asking a woman to dance always seems so terrifying.
And the past few years just didn't seem to matter that much.
- Figured I'd wait. - For what?
Right partner.
JOE RUSSO: The essential conflict in Steve
is the desire to serve.
And that desire to serve would supersede his personal identity.
He's got an amazing set of morals and values.
He's an incredibly good man,
given the hand that life has dealt him.
Doctors kinda know that if this guy is given this great gift,
he won't take advantage of it.
He understands how to value what he has
'cause he didn't always have it.
JOE JOHNSTON: The common issue among all the Marvel heroes
is that they have a very vulnerable side to them.
And Steve Rogers is certainly no exception to that.
He is probably the most vulnerable
before he becomes Captain America.
CHRISTOPHER MARKUS: He, more than any of the other superheroes,
really, kind of, loses who he was
in the process of becoming him.
'Cause he was a scrawny, 90-pound man,
who gets changed into Captain America.
So the old him ceases to exist.
There's no life of Steve Rogers that he goes back to.
Almost, I get the feeling,
he'd be more comfortable if he could wear the outfit all the time
because then he has a persona.
Then he knows who he is.
That's the first time he was valued,
he had very few people who valued him.
He wasn't quite an orphan
but he was alone fairly early on
and he had one friend.
It was Bucky Barnes, and Bucky Barnes goes off to war.
And he was a scrappy kid
who got picked on all his life.
JOHNSTON: He is very relatable.
He is a superhero.
But all his power is basically what the human body can do.
McFEELY: Once circumstances lead him to being Captain America,
he finds, you know, a purpose.
You told me you thought I was meant for more than this.
Did you mean that?
Every word.
HAYLEY ATWELL: Peggy has a career.
And she has a lot of self-respect.
And she's pretty sick and tired
of lots of men kind of not taking her
seriously in the Army, and you know,
playing around with her.
I think Peggy relates to someone really fighting for what they believe in
and really having to struggle all the time to prove themselves.
And, she being the only woman in this environment,
knows exactly what that feels like.
It's not just the normal, everyday love story.
There's something else.
In the same way that we love Steve,
because he exhibits some sort of determination
and selflessness,
that's the same thing that attracts her to him.
JOE: Steve learned a lot from Peggy Carter.
If you go back and look at The First Avenger,
that is the essential relationship
that I think turned him into who he is today.
It turned him into Captain America.
Her sense of integrity,
her call to action are all qualities that have been engrained
in Steve and are his best qualities.
And they come from an example, from Peggy.
And so I think it was critical that her character
embody those essential qualities
because he wouldn't be who he is without them.
I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance.
A week, next Saturday at the Stork Club.
You got it.
PEGGY: 8:00 on the dot. Don't you dare be late.
JOE: The great tragedy of Steve Rogers' existence
was, now he found he love of his life
and then, had to sacrifice himself,
and 70 years of his life to save the world.
ANTHONY: I always found it very endearing about Cap,
that for all that character has sacrificed,
and he's sacrificed a lot.
But one thing he could never let go of was Peggy.
And it just stayed with him all those years.
It's been so long.
So long.
Well, I couldn't leave my best girl.
Not when she owes me a dance.
ATWELL: We want the audiences to feel moved by it.
People have sent me poems that they've written about Peggy and Cap,
and montages that they've sent me
of Peggy and Cap's greatest moments,
putting, like, soundtracks over them,
like Aerosmith soundtracks or something,
with longing looks from Peggy and Cap.
And I'm realizing that the story has affected them.
And that's great 'cause we feel like that's what we wanted.
We wanted something that had heart to it
that people, essentially, cared about.
Even after he died, Steve was still changing my life.
I really like what they let my character experience
in these movies, to be honest,
the struggle and the sacrifice
and the culmination of friendships
that have had peaks and valleys.
And it's just a really layered, colorful experience.
JOE: His arc over the course of the movies
take him from a place of service,
to where he started to question authority
and ultimately embrace his identity
and become self-actualized.
And he has the opportunity in Avengers: Endgame
to go back and correct the loss
and be with Peggy, the love of his life.
And he makes that choice.
So, did something go wrong or did something go right?
Well, after I
put the stones back, I thought...
Maybe I'll...
try some of that life Tony was
telling me to get.
You're trying' to tap into Steve's journey before you go to set
to understand what this moment means to him.
But you can't help but think about your own.
And think about what this entire experience
has meant to you. [INHALES SHARPLY]
God, you can get choked up even thinking about it right now.
You wanna tell me about her?
ROGERS: No.
No, I don't think I will.