‘I like the stealth suit from Cap 2. The dark, navy blue suit from the opening of Winter Soldier when I’m on the Lemurian Star, messing people up on that ship. And in the elevator! That’s my favorite. I have requested it every movie, but the people at Marvel really like a little red. They like a little red in there. Which is fine. It’s Cap; I get it.’ – Chris Evans
“In my own life, I have a deep connection with my family and the value of those bonds. I’ve always loved stories about people who put their families before themselves. It’s such a noble endeavor. You can’t choose your family, as opposed to friends. Especially in L.A. You really get to see how friendships are put to the test; it stirs everyone’s egos. But if something goes south with a friend, you have the option to say we’re not friends anymore. Your family—that’s your family. Trying to make that system work and trying to make it not just functional but actually enjoyable is a really challenging endeavor, and that’s certainly how it is with my family.“ – Chris Evans photographed by Mark Segal for Esquire Magazine’s April 2017 issue.
this photoshoot was literally sent by Satan to punish ME SPECIFICALLY and i’ll tell you why: because these are pictures not of Your Hot Goofy Boyfriend, Chris Evans, but of Your Sexy and Reliable Husband, Chris Evans, Who Swore Before Your Friends and Families and God to Care for You Forever and Meant It. Your husband Chris Evans likes to listen to old Dinah Washington records while doing the dishes. Your husband Chris Evans loves to make breakfast but never touches the coffeemaker because he’s weirdly convinced that he doesn’t know how to use it. Your husband Chris Evans always smells like detergent and Kiehl’s. Your husband Chris Evans is learning to refinish furniture from Youtube so all your kitchen chairs are stained different colors because he hasn’t decided which one he likes best and “it’s a process.” Your husband Chris Evans loves it when you scratch his head while he’s reading the newspaper. (Your husband Chris Evans insists on continuing to subscribe to a physical newspaper.) Your husband Chris Evans is considering buying a kayak. Your husband Chris Evans is finally after like 8 years finishing his dissertation on Samuel Beckett’s use of parataxis and hypotaxis and he likes to read passages aloud to the dog because it “helps him think.” (“Per Adorno, paratactical strategies permit the emergence of an aesthetic unity that knows itself to be inconclusive,” croons your husband Chris Evans in his gooboy voice as the dog drools adoringly on his face. “Don’t they? Yes, they do.”) Your husband Chris Evans insisted you spring for a land line when you bought your house because “real houses have phones in them” and you were like, this is a real house and we already have twophones in it, and your husband Chris Evans was like “not cell phones“ with that grossed-out hippie face he gets when he’s thinking about how modern technology is invasive and how he wants to be more present in life, and you were like LOL eyeroll, but then he got his arms around you and was like “i want a phone so people can call us at our house,” and you JUST KNEW he was thinking about when you have kids, and you were like, Ohh, God.
One of my favorite things about Chris Evans is that he runs like an absolute dumbass.
“He’s very fast and he also has a very unique run. I mean, it’s almost a dancer’s run. And when we tried to double him for running, there was nobody who could run like him. They just didn’t have the same dynamics or the way he moves, and he had to end up doing most of his own running.”
– Joe Johnston, director of ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’
Hi also adding that he’s probably so hard to double in running shots because he fucking *bounces* all over the place. Which makes the fact that he’s a fast runner that much more surprising because that bouncing gait is a colossal waste of energy. I can’t tell you how long it took the coaches to train that out of my brother when he was in track (I keep talking about him and not me because he was actually athletic and I was just a very good fraud).
Also women often run with that bounce because we often get trained to walk on the front soles of our feet through dance, gymnastics, wearing heels, etc.
So what they really needed was a dancer or a woman to be Evans’s running double.
He’s the bounciest little shit it is genuinely amazing
(pictured: Chris Evans completely inability to hold fucking still)
I have to admit I haven’t seen the video; I don’t really go on twitter and candid videos of celebs tend to make me cringe. But I do know that one of the demands of being in the Marvel stable of actors is that you have to do a lot of physical modification. RDJ and CEvans both bulk up for the films and then drop muscle when they’re between them (I think RDJ put on something like thirty pounds of muscle for Marvel and dropped it for the Sherlock Holmes films, which at the age of fortymumble is a feat in and of itself). Evans has talked about how his body really wants to weigh about 180 pounds, but when he’s filming at Cap he’s closer to 220. So depending on when that video was filmed, he might have been shedding muscle weight, or he might have been gaining muscle weight and shedding the like, half pound of body fat he has.
Also depending on how it was filmed, there may be a bit of video distortion that’s most evident in facial features. So it may have nothing to do with the muscle gain/loss (which continually impresses me as a physical achievement and horrifies me because that can’t be good for you physically).
I got nothin, Anon. 😀
If it’s the video I watched the other week, the one with his brother and the singing, I’m pretty sure I remember noticing when I watched it that it was mirrored – the decals on their shirts were backwards. While it doesn’t make a massive difference for all people, Chris is someone who has very noticeable asymmetry with his expressions. He smiles more with one side of his mouth than the other, one of his eyes blinks ahead of the other, etc. It could be that you’re picking up on those differences and not knowing why, just that his face looks subtly ‘wrong’ or different. For the same reason, some people find photographs of themselves disturbing – because they’re used to seeing their faces in mirrors, not as they actually are.
knitting in the dark 