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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Chris Evans is planning to act less regularly as he would just like to smoke a joint.
Chris Evans is planning to act less regularly
“I’d like to just smoke a joint, put on some music [and] get into pottery”
“I like autonomous things. I’d like to just smoke a joint, put on some music, and like, get into pottery,” he told GQ in a new cover story. “You know what I mean? Seth Rogen, what he’s doing. It’s good for you, man.”
Evans going full Jeff Bridges Dude isn’t quite as random as it might seem. While Evans is ostensibly being featured in GQ to promote his role in the new Netflix film Pain Hustlers, he spends much of the story being meditative, pondering with writer Zach Baron over the state of the world and his own place in it.
CHRIS EVANS HAS played Captain America. He’s led romantic comedies opposite Anna Faris and Ana de Armas. He’s portrayed villains in blockbuster productions (The Gray Man, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), embodied post-apocalyptic revolutionary leaders (Snowpiercer), and has proven time and time again that he can really be quite funny (Not Another Teen Movie). Chris Evans has done and can do a lot of things—but in a new GQ interview, he revealed that there’s one movie star doing things that he wants to be more like, and probably not for the reasons that you would typically imagine.
He’s not too sure about conversations like the one we’re having now either. “Even on the way here I was just thinking how much I dislike these things,” he says. “And I was like, Well, if that’s what you feel, say that.” But Evans also tends to read the stuff people write about him, and he hasn’t been happy in the past when he reads himself telling journalists he dislikes these things. “I’ve certainly gotten sick of hearing myself say that. Sometimes I’ve read it, I’m like, Shut up, Chris. Who the fuck cares? Shut up! Like, you’re just so complainy. Because you don’t want to seem that way. But like I said, I sometimes go into interviews with the mentality of: Say exactly what’s in your brain. Just say what’s in your brain.”
Evans has been working steadily and successfully in Hollywood for more than 20 years. But he has not always felt in control there. When he was younger, he acted in a lot of what he now describes as “bad movies.” His first real successes in the industry came by way of a series of characters who were “jocky pricks,” he says: handsome, muscular assholes whose smugness was their most memorable quality. And then came Steve Rogers, otherwise known as Captain America, a character so defined and iconic—unlike other Marvel heroes, Cap has basically been the same virtuous guy since the day of his invention in 1940—that Evans’s main job was as much to be a caretaker as it was to be an inventor or an explorer.
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