Marvel actor Anthony Mackie issued a new statement on Captain America to course-correct his comments on the patriotic superhero.

Mackie recently stated that Captain America, who he will play in the film Captain America: Brave New World, represents “a lot of different things” but that he personally does not think “the term ‘America’” should be one of the things the hero represents. In a new statement posted to the actor’s Instagram account, Mackie called himself “a proud American” and said Captain America has “universal characteristics that people all over the world can relate to.”