Sebastian Stan says he hates that his Marvel TV series was inspired by Tom Holland in 'Captain America: Civil War'

• Sebastian Stan told Vanity Fair that Tom Holland inspired "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier."
• In the series, Stan's character, The Winter Soldier, and Anthony Mackie's Falcon team up.

The friendly rivalry between Sebastian Stan and Tom Holland continues: Stan said in a new Vanity Fair video that he hated that Holland inspired "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier."

The 2021 Disney+ series focused on the heroes Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and The Winter Soldier (Stan) as they tried to rebuild their lives after the events of "Avengers: Endgame." The pair started off as enemies in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" but became friends toward the end of the series.

During the Vanity Fair interview, Stan said their friendship journey began in "Captain America: Civil War" when they had to work together to fight Holland's Spider-Man.

"Basically, Anthony and I got a show because of Tom Holland," Stan said while recalling the fight scene in the movie. "I guess that's, like, what I'm realizing now as I'm talking, which is something I'd really hate for him to know — Tom, that is, not Anthony."

In the past, Stan and Holland have used promotion tours to mock each other. Last month, Stan said in an interview with the entertainment reporter Jake Hamilton that he hadn't seen "Spider-Man: No Way Home" because he didn't "like to support Tom Holland."

In the Vanity Fair video, Stan said he didn't think his character was going to survive past his first appearance in "Captain America: The First Avenger," in 2011.

In that movie, The Winter Soldier — known as Bucky at that point in the story — seemed to fall to his death after Captain America failed to save him. Stan said that while shooting a scene, he was supposed to receive a green sleeve to cover one of his arms so that the crew could use special effects to show he had lost the arm in the fall; that would tease his return in a "Captain America" sequel, as The Winter Soldier is known for having a metal arm.

"Basically, on the day when we were shooting that scene, they were like, 'Yeah, we're not going to do the green sleeve,'" Stan said. "And I just thought, 'Oh, like, that's it. Like, I'm just going to die on that train. There's no coming back.' But they just didn't know what arm they were going to use or something, and kept going from there."