Danny Ramirez is really excited to work with his best friend, Lewis Pullman, again
Fans of Top Gun: Maverick have been gifted since the film’s release. Our beloved Daggers have been thriving in Hollywood. One is Danny Ramirez, who recently starred in Captain America: Brave New World. Now he’s gearing up to working with his Maverick best friend, Lewis Pullman, again for Avengers: Doomsday.
Marvel knew what they were doing when they put Ramirez and Pullman’s chairs together during the cast reveal. But it is an exciting time for fans of the duo. I was lucky enough to speak with Ramirez for the release of Brave New World on Disney+ and while we talked about a great many things, including working with Harrison Ford, we also talked about his friendship with the Thunderbolts* star.
The two have been friends for a long while, even being roommates at one point. In Ramirez’s own words, they are best friends. So I asked if he ever thought that he’d end up going on this Marvel journey with his best friend. “To predict this is insanity. Like you’d have to lock me up the moment I said that,” Ramirez joked. “‘Yeah, you know what, we’re gonna go into the MCU and you and I are gonna do it together and you’re also gonna be named Bob in this.’ And lock me up.”
But for Ramirez, he is just happy that he gets to do it with his best friend. “It’s been a dream and to do it with my best friend, I think that’s insanity. To be his roommate while he gets the call and is figuring out whether he’s gonna do it or not. That’s insanity. I think every fork on the road where things happened are just insane.”
Ramirez did, at first, think their chairs next to each other was a happy accident. Until Marvel admitted that they knew the two were friends. “Granted, I was told that they did this on purpose after that I was like, ‘Oh, our chairs together.’ Because I was like, ‘Oh, did they know? Did they know?’ And they were like, ‘Of course we knew you guys were best friends.’ So I think it is just beautiful. I think our montage in 20, 30 years, 40 years of our careers and lives, I get sent all these like BobQuin montages and even, not even BobQuin montages, but just mine and his like photos through the years.”
One of the sweetest parts of this interview was that Ramirez clearly loved working on Maverick. He talked about how his phone gallery makes beautiful montages of pictures with him and his fellow Daggers, shared stories of the cast, and even let me know that the group chat is still active. It allowed me to tell him how much I loved getting to see a recent picture he posted of himself, Lewis Pullman, and Glen Powell together in London.
“I think back, we’ve had dinners like this before where we’re in the middle of wondering what are we gonna do in this next chapter. Before Glen became the number one movie star in the world. We’re like, ‘Yeah man, this career is tough. Like, how do we self generate?’ And so we’ve always had these gatherings of the minds and to sort of be there that day and see what Glen is doing. See what Lewis is doing, see what I’m doing and be like, ‘Oh, we’re doing pretty good guys’? I wouldn’t trade that for the world.”
Danny Ramirez really cares about Fanboy
As is part of the canon in Top Gun: Maverick, Mickey “Fanboy” Garcia is a nerd. He loves nerdy properties and that’s how he got his call sign. So it felt right to ask Ramirez about that connection and what he thought Mickey would think of seeing him as Joaquin Torres in the MCU.
“I think Fanboy would absolutely go crazy that Joaquin’s a character,” Ramirez said. He shared that even though Joaquin is in the Air Force and isn’t a Navy man, like Fanboy is, that Mickey would love to see a character like Joaquin. “I think the fact that he is Latino, he’s doing air to air like he’s dog fighting with jets as himself… from what I’ve seen of the pilots that we still talk to, they’re stoked when I was like, ‘Hey, I am Falcon.'”
According to Ramirez, the pilots he has spoken to love Falcon because, as they told him, “he’s doing what we do.” But the sweet moment came when he said that if Fanboy walked into a theater to see Captain America: Brave New World, “I think he’d be like, dude that looks just like me.”
Much like myself, Ramirez did make it clear that while both Joaquin Torres and Fanboy are different from one another, the two are both the young bucks of their respect teams trying to make a name for themselves. “It’s two different tones. In the Maverick world, things are a little bit more textured with the groundness of, ‘it’s a singular mission and it’s about like taking out a nuclear facility’, right? And so there are different stakes on that than a world where you are fighting a Red Hulk and there’s been alien invasions and there’s been all these immense world ending situations.”
But one thing that Ramirez loves about these characters is getting to see them grow and he hopes that if we do get a Top Gun 3, we’ll get to see more growth for Mickey as well. “I think in that energy of like being the younger one of the squad, which Fanboy was and Joaquin, there are these parallels that I like to meditate on of just what that dynamic is. Because as you get to continue figuring these characters out, you have really something beautiful to press against. And so as the years pass, who knows how long Joaquin’s around, but there’ll be a lot. Like there’s a set foundation as to where he started and in contrast, he’s gonna color where he could go. And I think with Fanboy, who’s to say there is some of that as well.” And Ramirez crossed his fingers. Same.
You can see Ramirez in Captain America: Brave New World, now streaming on Disney+!
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