Hugo Weaving is an interesting guy. He’s been a part of some of the biggest geek franchises out there, but he’s ironically not someone who seems to revel in it the same way someone like Chris Pratt or Chris Hemsworth do. He dips in, dips out, and moves on, rarely looking back. And if you have followed news reports in the past involving his work on Captain America: The First Avenger,  you may think he parted with Marvel Studios on bitter terms.

But is that what actually happened? Did Hugo Weaving actually hate playing Red Skull so much that he refused to come back?

‘Oh, yeah. I loved playing that character Red Skull – it was a lot of fun,” Weaving revealed to TimeOut. So, then why didn’t he come back? “We were all obliged to sign up for three pictures: I was thinking [Red Skull] probably wouldn’t come back in Captain America but he may well come back as a villain in The Avengers. By then, they’d pushed back on the contracts that we agreed on and so the money they offered me for The Avengers was much less than I got for the very first one, and this was for two films. And the promise when we first signed the contracts was that the money would grow each time. They said: ‘It’s just a voice job, it’s not a big deal.’ I actually found negotiating with them through my agent impossible. And I didn’t really wanna do it that much. But I would have done it.”

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So, as with many things, it all came back to money. On one end, you have a studio that promised more money with each appearance, but on the other, you have the reality that the role as Red Skull was just a five-minute spot between two movies. I can understand Weaving’s desire to get more as promised, but considering how many moving pieces there were, it just didn’t seem feasible.

All in all, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame were no worse for it, and all parties seem to have turned out fine.

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SOURCE: TimeOut