The stage of Chris Evans giving life to Steve Rogers, Captain America of the Marvel Universe, came to an end with the premiere of ‘Avengers: Endgame’. They were eight intense years that started in 2011 with the first ‘Captain America’ movie; Although it all started there, the actor is very clear that he enjoyed filming ‘The Avengers’ much more than ‘The First Avenger’.
“I needed a month without moving”
In an interview with Moviefone, Evans recalls that His first contact with the character had a major drawbackgiven that “The problem I had with Capi is that he is too good a guy. There is no weight to carry on your shoulders. The reason he was chosen is because of his ability to say, ‘I got this. There’s nothing you can throw at me that I don’t know how to handle.”
“As a result, it is difficult to find a conflict because of his ability to be as good at handling everything as an adult, maturely, rationally, calmly and intelligently, which makes it difficult to find an angle“.
Furthermore, the actor highlights that filming ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ was exhausting, which is why he enjoyed filming ‘The Avengers’ much more, where the protagonism was much more distributed with the rest of Marvel superheroes. This is how he tells it:
“I loved sharing the workload. On ‘Captain America,’ I worked every day, every damn day, for six months. Sometimes six days a week. We finished the movie and it was exhausting. Like, I needed a month without moving. ‘The Avengers’? I worked there maybe two days a week.”
“It was the best, like a summer camp. Very fun. It was a character that I already knew and was comfortable with. Plus, I loved the script. And the cast… I’ve made a million movies with Scarlett, I’ve I’ve known Chris Hemsworth for a while and he’s cool. Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo were so fucking cool. The movie could have been a disaster if we hadn’t gotten alongbut it couldn’t have gone better.”
Of course, Chris Evans is aware that ‘The Avengers’ was a great experience for the actors, since “We shot in Albuquerque, we could go straight back to Los Angeles and no one had any kind of stress“, but There was one person who ended up very burned by his experience: the director, Joss Whedon.
“Well, poor Joss. Joss Whedon was ready to shoot himself in the facebut everyone else? “We were having the best time of our lives.”
Finally, it is worth noting that Evans commented at that time that he made films like Marvel’s because “These huge productions allow you to go and do projects that you are truly passionate about“The curious thing is that he didn’t make that many films away from the studio during those years, although he was able to make the science fiction thriller ‘Snowpiercer’, one of the best works of his career (and he agrees).
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