Chris Evans Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ
Chris Evans breaks down his most iconic roles in, ‘Fantastic Four,’ ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,’ ‘Not Another Teen Movie,’ ‘Knives Out,’ ‘Snowpiercer,’ ‘Sunshine,’ ‘Puncture’ and ‘Pain Hustlers.’
SAG-AFTRA members are currently on strike; as part of the strike, union actors are not promoting their film and TV projects. This interview was conducted prior to the strike.
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Director of Photography: Josh Herzog
Editor: Graham Mooney
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00:00 Chris Evans – Iconic Characters
00:19 Fantastic Four
01:46 Captain America
05:12 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
07:57 Not Another Teen Movie
09:03 Knives Out
10:52 Snowpiercer
13:14 Sunshine
15:08 Puncture
17:20 Pain Hustlers
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Never realized how entertaining it is to just listen to Chris talk.
I miss these kind of interviews with marvel actors. The o.g squad was so nice and friendly. Now the new people hate us fans. We need cap back
That’s what’s he’s doing all of his movies….did you mean interviews l? Because he in all his movies
@Malik Evans no bro. I mean marvel actors as a whole entity. Look at pre infinity war interviews with any marvel actor. They were so fun.
@alexconnor8961 ohhh okay kinda confused me a little lol
There are a bunch of these same videos with other actors and they’re all pretty cool to see. Cool to hear about what these people think about the roles they’ve done.
It goes underappreciated how much talent it takes to play a character like Johnny Storm and have a switch up like playing Captain America and not have one role mar the perception of the other. The time gap in between movies helped but I remember at the time of him being casted as Cap there was a lot of worry and complaints that he couldn’t do it because of the perception of playing a role like Johnny in technically the same comic universe.
Whenever I hear him speak he seems calm, not funny as he said himself, and very strong willed, more like the cap than anything else. I am surprised he could do all those other buffoon roles and fit so well in them. This guy can play anything.
It weirded me out for a while seeing Chris Evans play Captain America bc I was so used to seeing him play Johnny Storm lol. And they’re polar opposites in personality. What’s ironic though is in the comics Johnny Storm and the Fantastic Four are the ones that actually found Cap in the ice
No offense to Evans. He is a decent actor. But his roles were mainly teen dramas and superheroes. Those films don’t really take a whole lot of acting range and skills. I would love to see him in more demanding roles like his protagonist role in Snowpiercer. Because he definitely got the chops.
Dont forget his iconic role as Lucas Lee in Scott pilgrim
Don’t forget the range he had as Johnny Storm in the second movie when he had to switch up and be serious he had shades of Cap and being a leader then.
I would love to see him play a truly evil role. He was great as the bad guy in Knives Out. Let’s step it up a notch.
Was he not a villain in that movie with Ryan Gosling?
Yep
Lucas Lee was a great villain role for him to play.
The one with Gosling
I love hearing the cast of Scott Pilgrim talk about that movie, its my favorite film of all time and it makes it even better how great of a time everyone had making it. I cannot wait for the animated series.
same here )
I love that movie and not just because it’s set and filmed in my city!
@Angelo Barovier Fun? In Toronto?
My fav part is knowing he actually did the eyebrows! It’s not make up or cgi. He has great facial control, lol.
Really, that’s your favorite? It’s not bad, but haven’t heard anyone ever say it’s their favorite
One of my favorite most underrated movies with Chris Evans is cellular with Jason Statham as the bad guy!
I loved that movie
it is he most underated movie in his whole cerrer and i hate that people don’t know about it.
Cellular is so underrated as a enjoyable, quick pace, straight to the point movie.
The cell phone logic makes absolutely no sense and I love the movie regardless lol
I loved that
0:21: Fantastic Four
1:46 : Captain America
5:12 : Scott Pilgrim vs. the world
7:57 : Not Another Teen Movie
9:03 : Knives Out
10:52 : Snowpiercer
13:14 : Sunshine
15:09 : Puncture
17:20 : Pain Hustlers
Glad to see Sunshine mentioned, that movie is so underrated.
I’m really happy to see y’all shine light on Puncture ❤ that’s some of my fav Chris scenes ever
you’re amazing
@mainly_marvel yes.. Chris Evans is amazing. 😄
@Harshavardhan Raman lmao but ty for all the timestamps
I’m really happy he talked about Snowpiercer. Underrated flick.
I was fortunate enough to see it in Theaters. Amazing film
what you mean underrated? they even made a series recently and i remember when it came out was triple A movie. tho the concept is a bit weird to me but hey if you like it
@qu3nt it bombed really hard in the US so not a lot of ppl still know it
The show is better I think. The concept deserves more of the longform story treatment. A 2 hour movie doesn’t do it justice.
Great movie. I was making a reaction for my channel and the file got corrupted. Still frustrates me to this day that I couldn’t publish it because I really loved the movie!
I’m surprised ‘Defending Jacob’ and ‘Gifted’ weren’t on here, they’re 2 of my favourite projects he’s done
Me too!
Gifted was great!! Probably “too small” for the video, but a great movie and performance
his role in defending Jacob was insane, he did amazingly well!
I needed Defending Jacob here 😢😢
The way he talks about figuring out why people love a character and honouring it rather than just doing their own thing, is something more actors in such iconic roles should learn about.
Seriously. That was such a breath of fresh air to hear him say.
Chris was hilarious in The Losers. I can never listen to “Dont stop believing” without thinking of his scene
Love that movie!
All the different t shirts he wears throughout, and his obsession with cats 😂
I really wanted that movie to be on this interview. 😢