Chris Evans talks about how he bulked up for Cap, his favourite set and more!!
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Chris talks about how it got inshape for the role…. about time I found out I mean look at him!:
“I worked out a lot. My metabolism moves at a million miles a second so I had to eat a lot too to gain weight and muscle. There was no day I took off and no day where I just took it light or easy.
There was a trainer from London who flew to Boston because I was doing a film [What’s Your Number?] there before this. For more than three months we trained together every single day for around 90 minutes. It was tough but I like exercising, and I exercise even when I’m not preparing for a film.”
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Then he goes on to what he found difficult about playing Cap:
“[Laughs] Getting in and out of the Captain America suit. It really made me miss doing films where you just wear normal clothes.
The Cap suit is a very cumbersome outfit and it wasn’t easy to go for a pee because of all the layers. I could go but it was tricky.”
What his favoutite set was???
“I liked seeing the rebirth lab where Steve Rogers goes and gets the injection and becomes Captain America. I saw the storyboards in the production office before I even agreed to do the film and I thought ‘I bet that’s going to look really cool’ – and it did. I knew it would be a fun scene to film and to watch. I remember the first day I walked on that set I thought ‘Wow, this is great’.”
How he felt when he found out he got the role for Captain America:
“It was good and bad, you know. It was exciting and there’s a world of potential and opportunity that comes with a role like this, but then there’s also a lot of pressure and nerves. It’s a big responsibility.
As an actor you want opportunities like this but if a big movie hits there’s a whole bunch of problems and if it misses there’s another bunch of problems. It’s a real dichotomy.”
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Also he touches on whether he regreted saying to a journalist that “If the movie bombs I’m f****d, if the movie hits I’m f****d’:
“Kind of. You have to be careful what you say because people love quotes like that and they can be taken out of context. The sentiment was right as opposed to the foul language.
What I meant was if the movie isn’t a success I’m front and centre and that would certainly hurt my career, and when it’s an enormous hit there are another set of issues you have to tackle – the loss of anonymity and the whole fame monster. There’s also the commitment, the responsibility and the pressure of any future films in the franchise.”
And finally about the idea of heading his own franchise?
“[Laughs] God no! Who would like that? Well, I guess some people would but I don’t even like being leads in movies. As I say, I’m not really one for the whole fame game. I love to act and I’m not going to pretend I don’t like the money that comes with it, the freedom it affords me and the things I can do with that money for the people I love.
It’s just unfortunate that theatre actors don’t get paid the same because if they did that’s what I would be doing. I shouldn’t say that because I do love films and I love acting in them, I just hate the other stuff that goes with it.
