Frank Grillo has already made a small piece of movie history, as one of the few actors to play a major role in both an MCU and a DCU movie. However, it turns out there was an even closer connection between his two roles than we realized.

Frank Grillo played Crossbones for Marvel Studios before his recent appearances as Rick Flag Sr. (in both animation and live-action) for James Gunn’s DCU . Both roles ended up requiring his character to arrest a superhero. He took Captain America into custody in Captain America: The Winter Soldier , and he arrested the Man of Steel in Superman as well. Hilariously, as Grillo told Brandon Davis , the two scenes were shot only blocks apart in Cleveland. Grillo said...

By the way, we shot Captain America right there. Yeah, we shot on that street.

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