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How Captain America’s Chris Evans Finally Got Tired of Being Famous
February 2010
After the long casting search for an actor to play the title role in
Captain America comes to naught (actors like John Krasinski, Ryan Phillippe, and Sebastian Stan were among the contenders), Marvel executives consider Chris Evans. They'd previously dismissed the actor since he'd already starred as a superhero in two
Fantastic Four movies, but they approach him anyway ... and he turns down the role. The initial sticking point is Marvel's demand that any actor who films a test audition for the company must sign a contract committing to nine films. "In a few years, what if I don’t want to act anymore?" Evans
recalled of that stipulation. "What if I just want to — I don’t know — do something else?" He later told
Variety that he
worried "if these movies take off and do very well, and my life changes and I don’t respond well, I don’t have the opportunity to say, listen, I need a fukking break. That just scared me."
March 2010
Marvel execs amend their approach, offering Evans a six-film contract instead. They also deputize team player Robert Downey Jr. to woo Evans into the fold. "I remember getting on the phone with him and strongly suggesting that he not shrink away from the offer,” Downey
revealed. "I said, 'Look man, you might not like the fact that you’ve played one of these guys before, but you know, the thing is this can afford you all sorts of other freedoms.'" Finally, Evans accepts the role ... and promptly enters "
panic mode," enrolling in therapy.
Summer 2010
Evans films
Captain America. He would later
say that his favorite day of shooting was the day they wrapped. "With
Captain America," he
told Moviefone, "you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are just a million angles and a million set-ups and it's tedious."
July 2011
Captain America is released, taking in a stellar $176 million domestically. Evans embarks on his biggest media tour yet to promote the film, one that includes
his famous GQ interview with Edith Zimmerman.
"I struggle with anxiety sometimes, especially when promoting films like this," he
tells ShortList. "Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it’s a stressful environment ... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I’m just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'"
Evans
tells the
Times that he doesn't desire the fame that
Captain America will no doubt bring him. "The question is: What’s the endgame?" he muses. "What’s the goal? If the goal is to be a giant movie star, then yeah, this is a great way to achieve that. That’s not necessarily what I’m trying to achieve."
September 2011
Evans happily promotes the indie
Puncture, where he plays a drugged-up lawyer. It makes a meager $68,945 at the box office. "No one sees my good little movies, man," Evans
laments.
April 2012
You've got to give the people what they want: After
Captain America made Chris Evans's buff body its main selling point, Evans must revoke his shirtless ban,
posing unclothed for a sexy Gucci campaign and
Details.
May 2012
The Avengers is released. It is huge. Evans seems
more morose than ever. "I’ve made about 20 movies," he says, "and I’m probably proud of three."
November 2013
Perhaps the public can sense that Evans feels ambivalent about fame:
As noted in a Vulture article, the nationwide surveying company E-Score finds that Evans has a lower "awareness score" than any of his
Avengers co-stars, save Jeremy Renner. Even Chris Hemsworth is more famous. And that's fine by Evans. "Fame is a funny thing," he later
tells Variety. "I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs, I like going to ball games, I like going to Disney World, or a big field on the Fourth of July and having picnics with friends. The problem is, you’re either worried you’re going to be recognized or you’re thankful you’re not. It’s always there. I miss that not being in my head."
December 2013
Evans finally gets to direct his first movie, the romantic indie
1:30 Train, where he stars alongside Alice Eve.
March 4, 2014
Evans begins to hint at a hiatus from performing. '"I think when I'm done with this Marvel contract, I'll take a little break from acting," he
says.
March 25, 2014
Suddenly, that little break has turned into permanent retirement. "If I’m acting at all, it’s going to be under Marvel contract, or I’m going to be directing," Evans
says. "I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do." How long will he remain under contract? "[
Avengers: Age of Ultron] will shoot till August. I wouldn’t be surprised if for all of 2015, we didn’t do a movie. I bet by 2017, I’ll be done," he tells
Variety, before grunting, "That sounds so far away."
him and iron man have given the best performances... gonna be weird if he gets thrown to the bushes ..