Anna Daniels
Leaving behind any beloved role can be emotionally difficult for an actor, and that grows by magnitudes depending on how many years they served in said role. Evans is known for being a reserved yet rather emotional man; even if you can’t necessarily see it in the Russos’ video, the actor’s last day playing Captain America was probably a challenging one to get through. It’s very common for everyone to clap on the final day of principal photography on an entire film, but knowing that that tradition is going to be exercised on you personally would hang over anyone well before and after. It wouldn’t be surprising to hear that Evans got choked up or shed a few tears after the cameras stopped rolling.
Now that he has the benefit of time behind him, Evans looks back on his years-long run as Cap with deep fondness for both the people and the experience. In a November 2019 installment of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” video series, the Captain America actor told his fellow MCU star Scarlett Johansson, the actress behind Black Widow, “I’m very protective of it. It was such a precious time, and jumping onto the movie was a terrifying prospect to me. I said no a bunch of times, and there’s a million and one ways it could have gone wrong.”
As the video shows and the Russos themselves note in their reminiscent tweet, people respect Evans’ talent and humility that he brought to the role, and that could only ever bring him immense success.
Written by: Looper
