Remember Chris Evans’s sweater? For a few weeks in December 2019, the chunky knitwear worn by the actor in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out became a miniature sensation. Clothing shops the world over sold out of the item’s nearest lookalikes. Baby Yoda wore it in memes. The New Yorker wrote an inexplicable 1,900 words on it. But while the sweater captured our imaginations because it looked cozy and luxe and appealingly well-worn, it was also because of the man wearing it. A star had been born.
Or at least reborn. Evans had exited the Marvel Cinematic Universe just a few months earlier, and carried with him enough audience goodwill from his 10 movies as Captain America that he could choose to be anything he wanted to be. Movie star? Serious actor? Regular ol’ wealthy recluse? Flash-forward five years, though, and Evans seems to have chosen option D: an actor who stars in nothing but slop.
