![]() “I was really apprehensive about taking the role initially,” he says. It’s been Marvel all the way down ever since.Įvans got in just late enough, in terms of when he was offered the part, to know what he was getting into. The first Avengers, which combined Evans and Downey alongside Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner, came out in 2012 and made $1.5 billion. Iron Man, of course, was shockingly successful, and basically set us on the increasingly narrow path, American movies–wise, we are still walking to this day. First seen as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, a fun, quippy World War II movie that came a few years after 2008’s Iron Man, which starred Robert Downey Jr. ![]() T-shirt by Aimé Leon Dore.Ĭaptain America. There’s a commonality to that character type”-meaning, the abrasive guy, I gather-“that I think I feel comfortable with.” But that type of emotional sharing often comes with physicality that I’m comfortable in, you know, body language and cadence. I, kind of to a fault, will dump my brain out unapologetically. We like to share and converse and just be candid. I’m not sure how much I believe in astrology, but I’m a Gemini and I’ve had enough ex-girlfriends tell me, ‘You’re such a Gemini.’ And one of the qualities of Geminis is communication. Even though I think we all kind of feel like introverts to some degree. “It’s funny,” he says, “I’ve been told that I’m an extrovert. “I think, if anything, playing Captain America”-honest and deliberate and infinitely scrupulous-“was slightly against type,” Evans says.īut there is type and then there is reality, and one wonders, I say to Evans, where he thinks he falls in real life-toward the hyperverbal, charmingly abrasive guys that made his reputation or the earnest, stolid superhero that made his career?Įvans’s answer to this, I’d say, is not particularly clear, except in the sense that it’s authentic to him: digressive, confessional, allergic to definition one way or another. And then again Pain Hustlers, in which he plays a fast-talking opioid salesman with pliable ethics and a deep enthusiasm for strip clubs. Memorably, and recently, in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, as a sneering dickhead in a great sweater-a part that, Johnson says, required "somebody who could kind of ride right on the edge of being someone who the audience both buys as a cad and also wants to put their trust in in a fundamental way.” Evans did this again in last year’s The Gray Man, as a gleefully sadistic hitman opposite Ryan Gosling. “It’s the fun of reaching for something that he’s not.” And Evans has had some fun. “I think sometimes opposites are appealing,” David Yates, who directed Evans in Pain Hustlers, says. Sometimes whether I’m asked to or not.”īut he is also great at playing assholes. “I, kind of to a fault, will dump my brain out unapologetically. He can’t, it’s like an impenetrable character trait. I mean, he’s famous and he’ll never know. And he can’t know, which is like this, it’s like an airtight thing. And he’s just so honest, so pure, so good. And this all feels a little basic, but he’s a little teacher, isn’t he? He’s like a little example of what we should be doing. He’s actively engaging in the moment in this really, really clean way. “What he’s not worried about is tomorrow. “What he’s not thinking about is yesterday,” Evans says. “Even when he was a little boy, just before bed he would ask me these intense questions, and I’d look at him and say, ‘Oh, my God.’ You know, his question is like: ‘Mom, who am I?’ ”Įvans says sometimes he looks at his dog, Dodger-whom Evans regularly posted to his millions of followers on Instagram until he woke up one day this past summer and decided to deactivate it, for all the reasons you’re probably beginning to understand-and feels something that is almost like envy. “Chris is extraordinarily introspective,” Lisa Evans, his mother, tells me, laughing. And I don’t have any more thoughts or questions about my own career.” And that kind of just brings me a sense of deep peace. I mean, the fact that any of us are here is unbelievable. It’s like shooting a bullet with another bullet. “When I don’t pay attention to myself at all,” he says, “and just, you know, question why black holes exist, that brings into perspective a macro understanding of the fact that I’m even here is a miracle. But despite that success, or maybe because of it, he is interested in, well: anything but the grand narrative of Chris Evans. “But it’s not something that I couldn’t live without.” He has had enough success to be financially secure for the rest of his life, and probably a few lifetimes beyond. He is adamant that he is not one of them. “There are some people that you meet and you just think, Man, that’s a movie star,” he says. None of these roles line up all that precisely with the way Evans is in his daily nonworking life, a fact that suits him.
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