14 DAY TRIAL // This summer, reports online and in the written press were saying that, because “The Avengers” had proved to be such a massive hit at the box office, Chris Evans (who plays Captain America) was having a meltdown because he couldn’t cope with the pressure.
Trouble for Evans reportedly began when he accepted to play Captain America both in “The Avengers” and his own franchise from Marvel, a job that tied him to the same part for many years to come.
Evans made no secret about how nervous he was for the first “Captain America” film, especially because he didn’t know whether audiences would embrace him, so we might as well assume that the above report originated in his own comments.
In a new interview with The Huffington Post, Evans sets the record straight: he is happy to be part of the Marvel team, and he’s looking forward to making more films.
“I’m looking forward to it because the movies were so good. Well, I wasn’t happy in the first Cap because — well, not that I wasn’t happy. I was just nervous, you know what I mean? I had taken a role that I was just nervous about,” Evans says.
The change was so huge (a lifestyle change, he describes it) that he was worried he might not be able to carry this huge responsibility.
After two movies, he knows he can.
“And now it’s like, ‘I got it.’ I got it. It’s OK. No one’s [expletive]-ing kicking down my [expletive]-ing door. I can still walk around. I can still go to a movie. I think I was just so scared that, like, ‘This is it. I just signed my death warrant; my life’s over. I can’t believe I did this. This isn’t the career I wanted.’ That didn’t happen. None of that [expletive] happened. I’m fine, fine,” he says.
Chris uses the opportunity to set the record straight on rumors of a meltdown: it never happened, he says, despite reports to the contrary.
He admits to having a hard time coping with the pressure that came with the role, but that was the whole extent of his “meltdown.”
“I’m fine! I’m fine! I’m fine. You know, I didn’t have a meltdown and I didn’t lose my [expletive]-ing mind. And the movies were good. And the biggest thing I worried about was making [expletive]-y [expletive]-ing movies,” he says.
Now that he knows he isn’t contractually bound to “garbage” and he has won over audiences and critics with his role as Captain America, he’s actually looking forward for more Marvel movies.
So is the rest of the world.