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The film features a short cameo from director Joe Russo, who appears as part of a support group for post-Thanos snap survivors and uses male pronouns to describe a date he recently went on.

In an interview with Deadline, Russo said the directors thought it was important that the first openly gay character in the MCU was played by one of them: "It was important to us as we did four of these films, we wanted a gay character somewhere in them. We felt it was important that one of us play him, to ensure the integrity and show it is so important to the filmmakers that one of us is representing that."