Chris Evans

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q178348: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright credits them on.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (9 films) instead.

Draws on

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No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (13) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (8)

  1. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Chris Evans. Sean says the cast now reads like the greatest hits of Marvel, DC, Disney and HBO, and the movie seems to wink at their future work.
    “This movie's linup now looks like the greatest hits of the MCU, DCEU, Disney and HBO lineups.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Chris Evans → Fantastic Four. Edgar says he cast Evans because he was always the bright spot in not-very-good movies like Fantastic Four.
    “he'd already by that point been in like fantastic 4”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:13:14 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Chris Evans → Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Evans almost did not become Captain America; he tried hard not to sign.
    “he tried so hard not to sign up for this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:50:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Chris Evans → Sunshine. Evans is great in Danny Boyle's Sunshine.
    “Right, great in that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:51:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Danny Boyle → Chris Evans. Boyle was the first director to fully crack Evans as a screen presence.
    “Like, Boyle was the 1st guy to fully crack it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:51:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Chris Evans → Fantastic Four (Chris Evans films). Evans was cast skeptically because he had already played Human Torch, a cocky Ryan Reynolds-adjacent snarkster, which seemed wrong for Cap.
    “You know, I knew Evans is the Human Torch in the Fantastic 4 movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:20:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Chris Evans → Snowpiercer. Evans is a leading man who would rather do Sunshine and Snowpiercer than sign a 7-picture deal, but took the money.
    “He'd rather be a leading man in things like sunshine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:24:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Chris Evans → Park Chan-wook. Joke: Evans opened the door of this train and found Park Chan-wook inside, a bridge from Cap to Snowpiercer.
    “open the door and found Park Chan Wilk inside and was like, hang out here for like a couple months?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:31:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Chris Evans → Kevin Costner. Evans has a young Costner-like all-American profile.
    “Evans kind of has a young Costnery sort of profile.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:36:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Anthony Mackie → Chris Evans. Mackie has better chemistry with Evans than Stan does.
    “They have better chemistry.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:36:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Chris Evans → Paddington. Steve Rogers is rooted for because he is a scrappier Paddington who believes the best of people and only dislikes Nazis.
    “he's just like a scrappier version of Paddington.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Chris Evans. Everyone knows Johnny Storm should be Chris Evans.
    “because we all know who should play. Johnny Storm, who?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:53:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): John Krasinski → Chris Evans. Krasinski was the leaked first choice for Captain America before Marvel offered it to Evans.
    “That he was the number one choice for Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:46:26 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Chris Evans: Edgar says Evans is a comedy nerd, and morning gym training with him and Cera and Schwartzman was a joy.
    “he's like a comedy nerd, Chris.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:14:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Chris Evans: Evans refused a screen test, so Joe Johnston made concept art with Evans's face and brought it to the production office, begging. Before that Marvel floated John Krasinski as the pick and fans made gym memes.
    “He refused the screen test, and Joe Johnston had them make up a bunch of concept art with Chris Evans' face”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:24:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)