Cars are coming down the middle
as our heroes are running this way and this way.
CHRIS EVANS: Love the Russos.
I remember them the first couple days on Winter Soldier.
They really felt like the new kids on the playground.
But everything they said they were gonna do, they delivered on.
Their attitude kind of breeds this sort of lightness on set.
Let's do one more.
KEVIN FEIGE: They're the filmmakers
that took the Captain America series
and elevated it with the Winter Soldier.
"Gotta know, Cap. This isn't personal."
And then you...
But then did it again with Civil War.
That film is gigantic.
This is gonna be a great shot.
FEIGE: We were midway through production on Civil War,
and we saw the amazing job that Anthony and Joe were doing,
handling all these different characters,
telling this very unique storyline.
It's going kind of this way right now and then the window's gonna shatter.
Yeah. And then...
We knew where we wanted to head with the next Avengers film,
and it was then that we started talking to them
about coming from Civil War onto Infinity War.
We had no time to settle between Civil War and Infinity War.
ANTHONY: As we were conceiving and executing Civil War,
the end of that movie was very much a setup
for what these movies would be.
We always had the sense of that.
Even not having a break,
I think we were able to move forward
because there is such a continuity in the narrative.
In Infinity War, the scope of the film, I think, is unrivaled.
And really, the only way the film could be made
was in the hands of Anthony and Joe Russo.
That was an A-plus version of the shot.
MARK RUFFALO: I was really blown away
by how culturally powerful it was.
I've never seen a reaction like that after a movie.
Infinity War takes people on an epic quest
that does everything from entertain
and delight you to devastate you emotionally.
The success of that film is certainly a testament
to the Russo brothers as a directing team.
There's no doubt it was not an easy task.
LOUIS D'ESPOSITO: You look at Infinity War,
you're in the hands of master filmmakers.
It is truly remarkable.
Slow it down just a hair and just turn it into a little bit of a...
Yeah. Sure.
You know, like, "I'm getting... I'm gonna get," you know.
Give it a little look and then go with it. Okay? Here we go.
We talk a lot about the culmination of Avengers: Endgame.
We wanted to do a great finale
that not only had the spectacle worthy of Infinity War,
but with sequences and scenes and character interactions
that could only be done with Joe and Anthony.
They're the only directors that could handle this many characters
and doing this ambitious of a story
that needs to pay off every film that we've ever made
in one climactic conclusion, while at the same time,
introducing an entirely new direction for the future.
D'ESPOSITO: When we were thinking about these two Avengers films,
we came up with this idea, let's shoot them together.
And it seemed like a great idea at the time,
but it's impossible to juggle one story.
And the idea of two stories this complicated,
figuring out what they are, how they intertwine.
The Russos are so adept at handling complicated storylines.
You know, after the camera whips to you...
- Yeah. - Take in the group for a beat,
and then ask where's Fury.
BRIE LARSON: You have to understand
what makes each character unique,
what special qualities they bring to it,
how they can shine.
DANAI GURIRA: It's pretty amazing watching these brothers, like,
create these amazing, powerfully epic tales.
Go that way? [LAUGHS]
Well, that'll just be the badass delivery.
You feel very, you know, safe and taken care of
and at the same time, you feel like you can contribute.
I'm clearly charting the course.
And then you just come in and start charting the course.
Yeah. You're like...
Uh, we're going to... Where to?
TESSA THOMPSON: The magic trick is
that they're working with so many actors that have,
you know, their own relationship to the characters
that come from their own sort of parts of the universe.
And to make that all into something
that feels cohesive is incredible.
PRATT: So, it's all in one piece. So it's gonna be like... Boom.
JOE: It's focused at the end of it. Go back to the stake.
TOM HOLLAND: They've done the unthinkable, really.
I mean, it's not just two movies back to back.
It's the two biggest movies of all time,
and they've been at the helm the whole time without fail.
TRINH TRAN: They love these characters,
and they know these characters inside out.
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: Anthony and Joe,
they've essentially been on a job for six, seven years now.
And I love them.
And they love the Avengers.
ANTHONY: Joe and I have always loved to figure out,
"How do we take the character and how do we take the audience
"and how do we take ourselves on a surprising journey
"that is not holding anything back?"
As you progress through films like that,
your job as directors gets bigger and bigger.
We really have an amazing team around us
that allow us to focus on the bigger picture,
so we're very happy with this experience.