By John Boone
Marvel Studios
Ahead of
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's premiere, Anthony Mackie admitted he was scared of being the star of the first Marvel project that sucks and having to do TV commercials for the rest of his career. "Hey, you never know, man. You never know!" Mackie exclaims now. "I was very concerned about the idea of being the first bombing Marvel franchise."
The series -- Marvel Studio's second release following the zeitgeist-defining
WandaVision -- premiered as Disney+'s biggest debut yet, and Mackie can breathe a sigh of relief, if only based on the reaction in his own home. "I watched all the episodes with my sons and their reactions were so funny," he tells ET's Nichelle Turner. "I became an audience member and was able to let go of it and watch it with them. I had never had the experience of just sitting back and enjoying it as a parent instead of an actor in the show."