THE INDEPENDENT – Danny Ramirez’s acting career began unexpectedly on a soccer field
When Danny Ramirez looks back at the starting point of his acting career, it feels as if the universe, in its own unique way, had chosen a soccer field to mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next.“I always say that the universe is the best writer, the most efficient writer,” says Ramirez.
He was a freshman in college, sitting on the bench during practice with a sprained ankle, when a production assistant walked over and asked if he wanted to be an extra on Mira Nair’s 2012 film “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” starring Riz Ahmed. The cast and crew were filming at a nearby soccer field.
Ramirez, 33, who is of Mexican and Colombian descent, immediately saw himself in the British Pakistani actor playing on the field.
As a young Latino, Ramirez thought that Hollywood only had space for white leads in big budget feature films — until he saw Ahmed front and center.
“I knew the next thing I wanted to do in my life was craft-based, something that I could just put hours into and be able to see my improvement and be able to have a goal to get to,” he says.
Ramirez went to a bookstore the next day and bought as many acting books as he could. He took on work as an extra to get comfortable on set and transferred to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
“I just fell in love,” said Ramirez.
Today, the actor is best known as Marvel’s new Falcon, in “Captain America: Brave New World” and “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and Lt. Mickey “Fanboy” Garcia in “Top Gun: Maverick.” This year alone, he’s had a memorable turn in “The Last of Us,” recently wrapped filming on the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday” and is at work on a “Scarface” reboot and the Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic “Samo Lives,” earning him a spot among The Associated Press’ Breakthrough Entertainers of 2025. And that was even before he served as co-host, last week, for the FIFA World Cup draw.
From ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ to enthusiastic actor
Seeing Ahmed on the soccer field was the cosmic confirmation he needed before going all in. Ramirez remembers admiring fellow Miami-raised actor and NYU alum Danny Pino while in high school, but felt he needed more proof that acting was attainable. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” was the green light.
“It’s something that just doesn’t happen,” Ramirez says. “I needed to be able to see myself in someone as that lead, as someone that has the responsibility and the privilege to tell a story.”
Shortly after graduating from NYU, Ramirez booked roles on “Orange is the New Black” and “On My Block.” His first feature film was Sam Levinson’s “Assassination Nation.”
“It like set the tone for how I was going to approach the next batch of work,” says Ramirez. “I just want to be creatively fulfilled.”
When he looks back on his career and on what he’s accomplished this year, it feels like a dream. At one point during the press tour for the latest “Captain America,” he looked over at his tablemates: Harrison Ford and Anthony Mackie.
“OK, I’m in it. I’m in it now,” he remembers thinking.
Ramirez is currently set to produce, write, direct and star in his own film, “Baton.” The project — about a soccer player with dreams of playing professionally — was spawned out of Ramirez realizing that many of the roles he craved weren’t written with him in mind.
“I looked at myself in the mirror, and I was like, well, I could easily complain about this and be mad that there is no opportunity. And before doing that, I was like, well, let me figure out if I could, in the same way that I learned acting and this craft, and approached it and attacked it like a madman,” said Ramirez.
Once again, he bought a ton of books on screenwriting, created “Baton” and recently launched a production company, Pinstripes.
The mentee becomes the mentor
Ramirez’s athletic background plays into his discipline for growing his craft and breaking down the barriers that Latino actors face in Hollywood.
“We’ve always had to work harder and be more thorough and go above and beyond that I think, its to me, been connected with, like, all right, ‘I’ve got to prove people wrong, that I’m going to go above and beyond, and that I am going to be better than what they expect, but also better than they are doing,’” he said.
This mindset is one that he wants to pass down to those who look up to him and see themselves in him, the same way he saw himself in Ahmed all those years ago.
“I’ve seen people who are given the chance, they’re like, ‘You know what, I’m not ready for it.’ And then I’ve been able to see so many people that are like, ‘Screw it, I’m going to take the reins, and we’ll figure it out,’” he said. “I think there’s just something to like that leap of faith, that we’re all human, there’s going to be mistakes anyway, then why not just have it be you.”
Ahmed told the AP in an email that he was moved when Ramirez approached him recently on a set.
“Danny is a huge talent. I can’t take any credit for his journey but it’s a reminder of how even a small opportunity can change someone’s life. I’m sure Danny will be creating those for many people for years to come,” Ahmed wrote.
A long list of mentors and collaborators helped Ramirez pave his way, including Mackie, Ford and Tom Cruise.
He says Cruise in particular gave him the advice to always have two skills on rotation that he’s actively learning: “Whether it’s dance or whether it is a different craft or learning about a specific time period, there’s always something that you could do, and I think having the confidence that you’re going to learn is the other part that I find incredibly exciting.”
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AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Danny Ramirez’s entrance into Hollywood began on the soccer field
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VOGUE MEXICO x LATINOAMERICA – In celebration of Vogue World: Hollywood, we bring together the Latino faces shaping the direction of the U.S. film industry.
Read carefully because this is the generation of Latinos setting the tone in Hollywood. Their purpose? To generate impactful, community-based projects. Their resolution? The time has been and will continue to be now.Danny Ramirez wanted to be a professional athlete, but instead, he became an elite naval aviator in Top Gun: Maverick , alongside Tom Cruise. He then entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Joaquín Torres in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier , then brought that character to Captain America: Brave New World , making him the saga’s first Avenger. He also became a survivor of an apocalyptic world in The Last of Us . This year, he also delved into the musical universe of Colombian singer Karol G, starring in the music video for Papasito from her album Tropicoqueta . Born in Chicago, Ramírez has pursued his dreams, but more importantly, he’s built them.
This year, we saw him walk in the Willy Chavarría show during Paris Men’s Fashion Week, and this is just the beginning. Next up, Ramírez will star in and direct Baton , a soccer drama produced by David Beckham. It seems that the projects the actor takes on build on his vision of continuing to open doors for Latinos. “For me, Latinidad is a mosaic: fragments of family, culture, joy, and struggle that come together to create something greater. My hope is that, as Hollywood grows and embraces the full spectrum of our identity, we reach that moment with excellence and take ownership of the stories we choose to tell, not falling into old archetypes or stories shaped by the fear of expectations, but telling the ones we want, the way we want,” he states in this portfolio.
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE – There are a few ways to know when you’ve made it big in Hollywood, and starring in a Top Gun movie is probably at the top of the list. Well, that— or landing a role in the MCU. Danny Ramirez, who stars as Falcon alongside Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World, has now checked both boxes. But the 32-year-old actor is way more than just a major blockbuster player. As he gets ready to appear in the second season of The Last of Us, Ramirez called up his old friend and Top Gun: Maverick costar Lewis Pullman to reflect on joining some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood, though he hasn’t forsaken his indie roots. “That’s where I came from, that’s where I’m going to, and that’s where I will live,” he told Pullman from the backseat of a Cadillac, naturally.
——— LEWIS PULLMAN: Where are you?
DANNY RAMIREZ: I’m in the back of a Suburban? A Cadillac? A Cadillac.
PULLMAN: Nice. Scream it from the rooftops, buddy.
RAMIREZ: Yeah, it’s always a dream to be in the back of one of these, you know?
PULLMAN: That’s what you did all the work for. [Laughs]
RAMIREZ: [Laughs] This is the payoff.
PULLMAN: Okay. Should we start this thing?
RAMIREZ: Let’s do it. I appreciate you doing this.
PULLMAN: Dude, I love you to death. I was honored to get the call. I want to start with this. I just went to the premiere of your movie, and it was the biggest premiere I’ve ever been to, and you were the star of it. You had your whole family there, and some of your best friends, and you had to leave two hours after to get on a plane to go to wherever you are right now. Paint me a picture of where your head is at, where your heart is at. What’s sinking in? What’s not sinking in?
RAMIREZ: I think that gave me a little whiplash. To be fair, it was a little chaotic to think that my mom was visiting L.A. for the first time, and then I just had to peace out on her. And then leaving the premiere is another thing, but in regards to the film’s reception, or the size of the premiere, that to me felt like a small premiere, which is weird. I had such a curated experience of it, and it was still a celebration, but it was just… segment, segment, segment. And then, the celebration itself was watching the film with everyone. But the rest of it paled in comparison to having my family be there.
PULLMAN: Where are you right now?
RAMIREZ: I’m in New York. I’m about to do Hot Ones.
PULLMAN: You’re going to do Hot Ones?
RAMIREZ: Dude, I know. I don’t know if they’re ready for what’s going to happen to me.
PULLMAN: They’re not. For the readers out there, he’s born with probably the worst tolerance to spicy foods, but also the most gumption to continue to push past the discomfort. I couldn’t think of a better person to be on Hot Ones.
RAMIREZ: It’s me and Anthony [Mackie], head to head.
PULLMAN: You just have to put yourself in a position where you’re going to be destroyed for a couple days, but you have to beat Mackie.
RAMIREZ: That’s basically what I’ve solidified in my head.
PULLMAN: First of all, I was so fucking proud of you watching this thing, man. It was an out-of-body experience, because I’ve gotten to know you so well and your performance is so magnetic. You’ve also done a lot of indie movies. What do you find are the main similarities between an indie movie and a huge big blockbuster like this?
RAMIREZ: That’s a great question. We all got lucky that a director like Julius [Onah] was the one that led us through Captain America [Brave New World], because he’s an indie director. That’s where he comes from. And the way he approached the story kept it grounded, outside of the days that you have to do some crazy stunts or some green screen things. So the energy he brought to set was that of an intrapersonal character drama. Honestly, this presser has been hilarious, because everyone’s like, “Yeah, Top Gun and Captain America, you’re a big action guy. Would you ever do indie movies?” I’m like, “Yo, that’s all I ever do, don’t rewrite my story now.” That’s where I came from, that’s where I’m going to go, and that’s where I will live.
PULLMAN: Right. You’re a part of The Last of Us now, which is massive, and with these huge franchises that already have existing IP, there’s a lot of expectations. You have Top Gun, Captain America, The Last of Us, so there’s a preconceived notion about what world you’re stepping into, what character you’re playing, how it should be. How do you navigate going those projects while staying true to what you want to do?
RAMIREZ: Another great question. You’re doing so much better than all these press junkets. To me, it makes it easier because the world’s established, so I have a bunch of tethers. It’s already a moving train. I’m not going to decide, “Hey, you know what? Let’s go this way.” I don’t want to shift its destination. Everyone knows their role. You’re a part of a system.
PULLMAN: Is there a world or a type of work that you feel like you haven’t touched yet, a collaborative format that you haven’t had the opportunity to dive into? And what would that look like?
RAMIREZ: I think a straight-up comedy. That’s terrifying to me. There’s parts of this movie that I’m funny in, because it’s circumstantial and situational, but a broader comedy terrifies me.
PULLMAN: What I appreciate so much about your performance in this is you do have a lot of the comedic relief on your shoulders, and you do play it with so much reality, and such grounded-ness. You’re not hamming it up.
RAMIREZ: Thank you.
PULLMAN: You’ve worked with so many incredible people in such a short amount of time, and I feel like you are really good about collecting and protecting little gems of knowledge from them. Is there something that you learned from Mackie that you’re going to take with you?
RAMIREZ: Yeah, it goes back to the previous question about a pre-existing culture on a set, and the first day on Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Mackie pulled me to the side. He’s like, “Yo, being in the MCU is like being in a theater troupe. Everyone here has been working together for the past 15 years.” And so sitting with that information, I think it was, “You’re not going to reinvent the wheel. Don’t come here to change the course, but let’s collaborate.” And that’s the same way we created Top Gun: Maverick. We were all fresh and new, but there was no need to impose ourselves and play selfishly. So I took that theater troupe mentality, hoping to establish it in the future projects.
PULLMAN: I love that he took the time to tell you that.
RAMIREZ: It was two sentences, right? It was only 30 seconds of his time.
PULLMAN: 30 seconds on his schedule. That’s two days.
RAMIREZ: Yeah, that’s true. He is Captain America.
PULLMAN: Okay. I’m going to divert to a sappy one here. You work pretty consistently. Even when you have time off, you somehow fill it with work that’s setting the stones for whatever’s next. You must get tired. What do you tell yourself in those moments, where you feel like you might be becoming complacent or you might be settling for mediocrity?
RAMIREZ: Well, I absolutely get tired. I’ve gone through different phases where I seek balance, and I was seeking it so intensely, that I was like, “I’m not seeking balance.” There were times within the training for this movie that I was tired and didn’t want to do the extra miles at the end and I was like, “No, I get to train like an athlete right now. What would little me think of this moment?” Or if I have to work a scene and I’m exhausted, I’m like, “Little me would be happy that I’m going to be able to provide for my family.”
PULLMAN: That’s cool.
RAMIREZ: Yeah, I tap into that quite often, because there’s so many moments that I think I could get jaded. You get jaded real quick if you run into people that are not doing this for the right reasons. That’s one of the things that affects me the most, is seeing someone that just wants to do this to be famous.
PULLMAN: Okay. I’ve got some rapid-fire questions. You’re stranded on a desert island, you can only watch three movies for the rest of your life. What are they?
RAMIREZ: Interstellar would be one. I’m jealous of my friends that are able to quote Will Ferrell movies like it’s scripture, so I’ll go Step Brothers just to have a light movie that I could memorize, so if I ever get returned back to society I would still fit in, just because so many people quote that movie. The third would be City of God.
PULLMAN: Nice.
RAMIREZ: That’s the movie that got it all started for me, because I think the other two are missing romantic elements. This one has romantic elements, but it’s also a really good drama.
PULLMAN: Yeah.
RAMIREZ: And then, I’ll sneak one in, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
PULLMAN: You’ve been telling me to watch that for a year.
RAMIREZ: You have to, dude. You’d love it.
PULLMAN: Okay, I got to get on that.
RAMIREZ: I see you update your Letterboxd all the time and I never see Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. It’s almost a slap in the face. [Laughs] This is why I asked for you to interview me, so I could turn this around on you.
PULLMAN: They should create a thing in Letterboxd where you can pay a hundred bucks and then lock somebody’s account until they watch a certain movie.
RAMIREZ: I would pay for that. I would have paid a hundred bucks for you to experience a great movie. That’s sick.
PULLMAN: Here’s a question. You do have to fly in this. Flying in films has been done so many times. What was it like up on the wires with the wedgies? How was that for you? Do you have a great landing, right before you kick those three dudes’ butts?
RAMIREZ: Well, that was because of the experience on Top Gun. I felt like if Tom [Cruise] saw my body positioning, he’d be judging the aerodynamics.
PULLMAN: [Laughs] Yeah.
RAMIREZ: You’ll see in the BTS, I’m holding proper form, so whether or not body parts were replaced, that’s not on me. I was aerodynamic, and banking when I had to bank, and trying to make sure that my head was in the right position because wind will then affect lift, and all these things.
PULLMAN: Right, and you don’t want to whiplash.
RAMIREZ: Yes. I think that’s what was instilled in me having done Top Gun. “Tom’s maybe going to watch this and if he does, I better come correct.” So there were days that I would be the only one putting on a G-force face.
PULLMAN: Yeah.
RAMIREZ: Just because Sam’s suit is a way more advanced thing that I’m like, “Alright, he’s under a different reality.” Mine’s a little bit more analog, and so we have tubes to breathe, and I’m the literal cockpit. I’m the jet.
PULLMAN: Okay, I’ve got two more questions. The last scene in this film is such a beautiful scene and your performance is incredible. You and Mackie are really locked into a truly open heart place. Can you give us a little bit of how the sausage was made in that scene?
RAMIREZ: Yeah. So that was the first scene I shot in the whole movie. Day one.
PULLMAN: That’s classic.
RAMIREZ: Day one with Anthony, obviously we’d known each other because of the show, and when we were in Prague, he took me in, guided me through that process. But we weren’t close, close. So I was also like, “Damn, okay. He’s probably going to be like, Who’s this kid that just got upgraded to a bigger role in this universe?‘” And then Julius kind of nudged over and whispered some stuff in my ear in regards to things that we had talked about, that I told him to remind me, just of honoring my dad and trying to turn that energy of grief into something that can be beautiful. I saw the moment that it clicked for Anthony, and because it was day one on set, I saw the respect build within that. And then he’s like, “Aright, we’re going to play ball.”
PULLMAN: That’s awesome.
RAMIREZ: And then, that final scene that we did, the final take we did, which is what you see most mainly in the movie, he turned it on to a level that I think was like, “Okay, we’re making this really grounded.” That was a north star for the rest of the film.
PULLMAN: I mean, it really works, and you guys really did earn that.
RAMIREZ: Yeah.
PULLMAN: Okay, last question. What are you excited about? What are the rays of sunshine peeking out of the horizon that you are looking forward to?
RAMIREZ: Well, it’s working with you, dude. I’m excited to work with you on the plane. It’s the project that we have cooking together. It’s having more agency in the stories and being able to pick. Because still, to this day, the jobs that I’ve had have been booked out from a point that I was auditioning for, grinding and getting them. But now, I think the scary part of the career is next, which is maybe having to make some decisions.
PULLMAN: Yes.
RAMIREZ: And even if it’s an audition, it’s picking and being selective, because I think we’ve been spoiled to work with really talented people, and I want to keep learning. That’s kind of what I’m looking forward to: working with people I love and people that I can learn from.
EMPIRE – The Captain America: Brave New World actor plays by his own rules.
When it comes to Danny Ramirez, football’s loss was cinema’s gain. All his life, Ramirez had had one goal. “As a little kid, I was like, ‘There’s only one thing I’m going to be when I grow up, and it’s a pro athlete,” he tells Empire. A lifelong love for soccer led him to play the sport at college in Atlanta, until one day, on crutches and unable to play due to a recent injury, his life changed. “A PA from a film came in to ask if [any of us wanted to be] extras,” says Ramirez. The film was The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Ramirez got to watch its star, Riz Ahmed, try to pull off some slick moves on the pitch. Before that point, Ramirez had never even considered that as a career. “The next day is when I bought all my acting books.”
That was over a decade ago. Since then, Ramirez has applied the same approach to acting that he did to being an athlete. “This is a craft- based process,” he says. “In the same way I work on my first touch, I could work on my emotional resonance, or people-watching, or psychology.”
Career-wise, he’s gone from strength to strength. The 32-year-old, Chicago-born, Miami-raised Ramirez may not have realised his dream of playing professional soccer as a right midfielder, but he managed to end up on the wing, alright. First, flying in a fighter plane as Fanboy in Top Gun: Maverick, and now as Joaquin Torres, aka the new Falcon, in Captain America: Brave New World. It’s a role that he’s been prepping for some time, as it turns out. “I was already cosplaying it as a little kid,” he laughs, recalling a time when, as a six or seven year old, he fashioned some wings and tried to fly off the second storey of his grandmother’s house in Mexico. “I crash-landed,” he says. “I knocked myself out. My family were like, ‘Dan, you cannot fly.’ With this and Top Gun, I have definitely won that argument.”
Ramirez’s commitment to his career is commendable. He calls it “the hustle”, a relentless drive for self-improvement. “There’s a joy in the challenge, right?” he says. “The hustle keeps me reinvigorated. It’s always, ‘What have I learned from the previous project? What do I want to do in my next?’”
He’s fearless, too. When Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Haynes united for a 1930s-set movie that would have explored the love story between a cop and a younger man, Ramirez bagged the latter role, unruffled by the prospect of the film’s graphic love scenes. “Beyond the risky sex scenes, it was a moment where I was like, ‘I could throw down with anyone,’” says Ramirez, who won the part after a chemistry read with Phoenix. “It was a moment where I felt like I’d arrived.”
Sadly, Phoenix pulled out of the movie just five days before shooting was due to begin. “I was heartbroken for Todd, and understood that the decision for Joaquin was incredibly difficult too,” Ramirez says. “I felt worse for the people that were affected on the ground. But the project’s hopefully still happening. I’m hopeful that the story will be lived out.”
One door closes. Another opens. The hustle never stops: next, Ramirez will be seen in Season 2 of The Last Of Us as Manny, a soldier with a sunny disposition (“I saw some clips in ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement),” he says. “It’s gonna fuck people up. It’s so good.”). But he’s mainly focusing on his directorial debut, Baton. Which, despite the title, is about something close to his heart: soccer. “There was just no soccer movie that I liked,” says Ramirez, who also wrote the screenplay and, via an assist from Tom Cruise, persuaded David Beckham to sign up as producer. “My soccer experience is a very grounded, visceral one. It just feels like the thing I’ve been prepping for my entire life.” Cinema’s gain might also be football’s gain at long last.
Danny Ramirez Soars as First Latino Avenger and Balances Acting With Upcoming Directing Debut
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WWD – Ramirez stars in the new Marvel movie “Captain America: Brave New World.”
For most, walking the Willy Chavarria show during Paris Men’s Fashion Week would be a major enough event. For Danny Ramirez, it was just the start.Since January, the 32-year-old actor has been crisscrossing the world to promote Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” taking the film to London, Spain, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco and more. It’s a tour fitting for the project, which has been percolating since 2019 and finally arrived in theaters last Friday. Despite so-so reviews, the film topped the U.S. box office over the three-day holiday weekend.
Ramirez, best known for his role in “Top Gun: Maverick,” had just finished that movie when a mysterious audition for a Marvel project landed in his inbox. Eventually the character name Joaquin was thrown around, but Ramirez still wasn’t sure who the character was until the casting call from Marvel came in.
“They said, ‘Hey, we’ve been waiting to make this call for a long time. Every city we’ve traveled to, people were asking us ‘when’s the first Latino Avenger?’” Ramirez recalls. “And they were like, ‘I’m happy to say that he’s here.’”
His character, Joaquin Torres, also known as Falcon, first appeared in the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” before the “Captain America” movie. When he started reading the comics, he quickly was drawn to Joaquin’s energy.
“He’s hitting it on the nose. He’s flying out of a window here. He’s doing all these chaotic little things that are so opposite of someone like Sam Wilson, who is Captain America, who holds himself with such professionalism,” Ramirez says. “And so I’d be able to lean into a little bit of chaos.”
The significance of playing the first Latino Avenger is something he’s still comprehending as he tours the movie around the world.
“As an actor, I never necessarily thought of having a figurine or thinking of a product being any part of artistic validation. But I think when you realize that some things are bigger than you, I think that’s where representation [matters] — it has always mattered. But I think I had always walked into a room not necessarily being like, ‘I’m representing the whole community.’ I’ve been myself since I was born, and so now this is an unshakeable and amazing responsibility to have that,” Ramirez says.
“Whether or not I think I’m walking in the door with it, it walks in the door with me. And seeing these kids that feel represented, or even the DMs or the people tweeting about the importance of seeing themselves. Or seeing people fully dressed up in cosplay, and someone’s like, ‘yeah, I’ve never cosplayed someone ever, but you’re one of us, bro.’ And I was like, ‘oh, damn.’”
Ramirez didn’t find acting until, as a college soccer player at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, an injury gave him the opportunity to witness a movie set. It was a weekend practice and Ramirez was on crutches watching the practice from the sidelines when a PA walked on the field and asked if anyone could be an extra for a scene.
“I was like, ‘I’m not practicing, and it’d be cool to see how [a movie] is made,’” he says. While watching them shoot a soccer scene for the movie “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” starring Kiefer Sutherland and Riz Ahmed, he remembers thinking, “I could do that.”
From there he bought a bunch of acting books and started doing online castings, eventually landing in New York and enrolling first at NYU Poly before switching to Tisch when acting became his sole focus.
His career thus far has been heavy on action films, but he’s looking to add in some variation in the near future. Ahead, he’ll be seen in the second season of “The Last of Us,” and “Pursuit of Touch,” which he wrote, with Jeremy O. Harris producing. He is also set to star and direct in “Baton,” a gritty soccer drama he wrote that touches on “sacrifice, grief and legacy,” he says.
“A lot of the stuff that I’ve gotten has just been the work that was available to me. That’s who cast me,” Ramirez says. “I’ve been really lucky that the work I’ve done are projects that have been financed and set up and have gone forward and are really awesome. From the indie work I’ve done to ‘Captain America.’ I’m hopeful and nervous, because now it’s up to me at some point to start deciding which projects to do.”
