Chris Evans has been playing Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America's character, for over a decade now. No wonder it is difficult for some fans to separate Evans' original identity with his popular character.
While Evans is proud of his character played in one of the most popular franchises, he has bound to his own challenges in real life. For his fans, Captain America is nothing but the epitome of perfection and also being a role model for young fans.
However, the 39-year-old actor revealed that he put a lot of pressure on himself to ensure that he meets the standard which is set "impossibly high" by his own Captain America's standards. Actors on Actors series continued to bring our favorite actors to talk with each other and reveal secrets that have never been discussed.
On June 25, actor Paul Rudd who played the title of Ant-Man spoke with Evan on Variety's Actors on Actors talk show series. During this candid interview, Evans disclosed about playing Steve Rogers and Captain America first back in 2011.
He told Rudd that it was an overwhelming and intimidating experience initially as audiences had huge expectations from this well-established and beloved Marvel Character. Evans said that team Marvel made him felt so comfortable that he felt it was a unique group effort.
Every decision that was made critically examined by the team and all the ideas use to compete and eventually the best idea would win. The actor concluded and told, that's how Marvel makes so many good films. Evans recognizes he is in good hands after looking at the working pattern of the team and his fear went down quickly.
Evans agreed that the pressure that made him felt negative about himself is not put by the world instead of him spending time with his own character of Captain America. Evans explained how he tried to find his own parallels with it and ended up fall short of the character like Steve Rogers.
The actor acknowledged that not taking in some parts of the character into his real-life after playing it for almost a decade is difficult. He explained that if the narrative in his head for 10 years tried thinking how Captain America would think, then it is extremely hard to not absorb that character. Eventually, the actor shared that such a perfect character makes him feel bad about himself.