This delicate alchemy projects an easy-breezy persona, and his career choices make sense in light of that.
He is brawny, but not thick-necked twinkly but not smarmy. He is the Goldilocks of attractive men: everything is just right. In a column last August, I described Chris Evans as “very handsome, but not oppressively so.” He has a thick head of hair, nice blue eyes, and a pleasant – if not exactly breathtaking – face. In an age when vulnerability is met not with derision but understanding, now is the perfect moment for a star like Chris Evans to become the canvas we need to project our desires onto. His arrival there is the result of a perfect confluence of events: his relative privacy, despite continent-spanning promotional duties his thoughtful, not-quite-full-bro persona and the perfect marriage of actor and role, chief among them. It's no accident that Chris Evans, now forever entwined with that symbol of American heroism, Captain America, rose to the top of the desirability pyramid. But times are different, and specialness is a bonus rather than a hard requirement. Fifteen years ago, you could argue, Chris Evans would be enjoying a nice mid-level Hollywood career, churning out inoffensive rom-coms ( Playing It Cool) and cult fare ( Snowpiercer), topped off by the occasional sleeper hit. That star system is largely a thing of the past and where there were once standalone giants – shimmering, glowing stars in the cinema firmament, even – we now have a slate of (largely interchangeable) nice white men. He does not have the arrogance-adjacent megawatt star quality that made us sit up and take notice of Tom Cruise. He does not have the sleek, urbane presence of Denzel Washington. He is not the golden boy Robert Redford once was, he is not the louche, sexual being Warren Beatty was, nor does he have the intense brooding machismo of Pacino or De Niro.
Because Chris Evans will never be considered the second coming of Brando. If he were a fragrance, that would be the top note, pushing out all notes (raw sex appeal, attractive world-weariness, a dour but commanding hard shell) into a secondary tier.
Across platforms, the internet hosts (often long, rambling) odes to Chris Evans’ blessed, charmed existence.Īnd speaking of charm, the boy’s got it. Phase 3 of MCU’s slate commenced with the release of Civil War, and fans are still packing out comic conventions to see him (and the rest of the cast, of course).
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On the face of it, there is ample evidence to contradict this: He is Captain America, the centrepiece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe aka what might be the biggest ongoing franchise in modern movie history – a web of connected universes that has made more than $8 billion worldwide since 2008. This is less a devastating insult than a statement of fact.
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