Yes, it was a dark time for the world indeed. Over the next year Evans continued to make America consistently more jealous of Minka Kelly, before he returned to film the second Captain America installment (that would be the original Avengers are you keeping up here?) with an even more superhero-y bod, but by 2014 he declared to the world that he was over partying and wanted a break from acting altogether, even threatening not to continue filming the superhero franchise.
Just look at them! It's impossible not to feel #relationshipgoals, even before #relationshipgoals was a thing! That matching sneakers-and-T-shirt look is too adorable for even the most hardened anti-celebrity-couple citizen to resist. They became the couple of the moment, making sure to keep America interested by going off-again and on-again a dizzying amount. the World and the old-school Fantastic Four (you know, the one with Jessica Alba), if that helps paint the picture of who Evans was in 2011. Okay, so maybe that's just a very specific subset of society, but you get the idea. And while that may not seem like a whole lot of time (because it isn't a whole lot of time), so much has changed for Chris Evans.Īnd conversely, Chris Evans has changed a whole lot in the eyes of the world.īack when he first readied himself to don the blue-and-white suit, we knew him most notably for his role as the Harvard Hottie opposite Scarlett Johansson in The Nanny Diaries.
That original installment-or, to be more specific, the reboot- Captain America: The First Avenger premiered exactly five years ago today. We speak, of course, of that mythical time before his very first Captain America. Picture this: It's the year 2011, and Chris Evans is not an international superstar and widely agreed-upon hunk of the moment, but a kind-of-known actor and mildly-agreed-upon hunk.