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Dirk Libbey

Chris Evans Talks Moving Away From Playing The 'Cool' Guy After Captain America

Chris Evans leaning against a counter in Ghosted.

For a lot of people, Chris Evans will always be Captain America first and foremost. His time as the Marvel superhero was absolutely iconic, to the point that the idea of anybody else playing the role is legitimately hard to fathom. From everything Evans has said, he loved his time in the role, but now that it’s done, he’s apparently having quite a lot of fun playing characters that are about as different from Cap as you can get. 

Evans’ new film Ghosted is about a secret agent who goes on one date with somebody, and then inadvertently draws them into the world of espionage. However, in this case, Evans isn’t playing the super spy. The spy role is handled by Ana de Armas, who has become an action hero in her own right recently. Evans is playing the average Joe, with no particular spy skills, who ends up in the middle of something he can’t handle by chasing after a girl. It’s not exactly Captain America, but Evans tells ET he likes it that way, saying…

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