After much speculation, it’s been confirmed that Giancarlo Esposito is playing villain Sidewinder in Captain America: Brave New World. The character is the head of the Serpent Society, and based on what was shown during Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, he’ll be causing some trouble for Anthony Mackie’s Captain America.
Speaking to GamesRadar+ after the Hall H panel, Esposito teased what this version of the character will be like, and how close he’ll be to the comics. “Well, you know, in the research I’ve done when I knew that I was going to be playing the head of the Serpent Society, someone who formed it and runs it, I wanted to know more,” he explains. “I wanted to go back [and] figure out what are his colors, what do they look like, what do they do, what are his superpowers?”
