There's video and photos of Hemsworth's wife trying to keep him from leaning to far over during photos. Considering how big he is she had quite a job of it.
Take a look at the fascinating family tree of actor Chris Evans and discover how his ancestry embodies the spirit of Captain America.
Posted on July 2, 2018
You probably know actor Chris Evans best as Captain America in the Marvel movies based on the comic book character. In real life, Chris Evans is actually descended from a long line of patriots who fought as soldiers in the United States military from the very founding of the country—from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812, the Civil War, and down to World War II.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR ANCESTORS
Evans’ 7th great grandfather, William Berry West, served during the War of American Revolution as a Corporal with the Continental Troops of Virginia. Following the war, after America had won its independence, William West continued to serve as a private in the militia, in Benn’s Battalion (Campbell’s Regiment), muster date of 16 November 1794. William was given a land grant of 100 acres for services rendered in the Revolutionary War.
Chris Evans’ great grandfather, George Robert Evans, served in WWII. He was an officer who graduated from the U.S. Military Academy [West Point] with the class of 1929. Census records show he was a Captain in the US Army, 21st Infantry, during World War II, stationed in Hawaii at Wheeler Army Airfield (one of the bases attacked by Japan) and living with his family nearby in Wahiawa. During his military career he achieved the rank of Colonel in the army.
Take a look at the fascinating family tree of actor Chris Evans and discover how his ancestry embodies the spirit of Captain America.
Posted on July 2, 2018
You probably know actor Chris Evans best as Captain America in the Marvel movies based on the comic book character. In real life, Chris Evans is actually descended from a long line of patriots who fought as soldiers in the United States military from the very founding of the country—from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812, the Civil War, and down to World War II.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR ANCESTORS
Evans’ 7th great grandfather, William Berry West, served during the War of American Revolution as a Corporal with the Continental Troops of Virginia. Following the war, after America had won its independence, William West continued to serve as a private in the militia, in Benn’s Battalion (Campbell’s Regiment), muster date of 16 November 1794. William was given a land grant of 100 acres for services rendered in the Revolutionary War.
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” —Eckhart Tolle
Chris Evans is friends with my gf’s sisters who went to high school with him in Mass. haven’t met him personally but apparently he’s a lovely dinner party host, super generous and down to earth.I sat next to Chris Evans on a flight back in the Fantastic Four days. He was a lot of fun to talk to. Then I ran into him right after Captain America came out and he actually remembered talking to me. Asked me questions about things we had talked about and everything. He seems like a genuinely nice guy.
Chris Evans grandpa lives in my area and I know a guy who does landscaping work for him. He got invited to a family party and was introduced to Chris Evans, but not having ever seen a marvel movie had no idea he was a famous actor. Said he was super nice and it wasn’t until later when his daughter pointed out he met captain America that he realized who he was.
Speaking of your stories. I know you have to take things on the internet with a grain of salt. But I started working for WDW 11 years ago. Not going to disclose what I do, but I’ve “met” him a few times. Didn’t see him when he was with Jenny, but I’ve “met” him & his family on multiple occasions & I can honestly say nothing but the kindest of things from my personal experiences. They match his so-called public persona. You tend to forget he’s Captain America. He’s great with his sisters kids.
Now Chris Evans on the other hand, such a nice guy. I was carrying a box of chips down to the marina, and someone held the door open for me, wasn’t til I walked through the door that I saw it was Captain America himself! I said thank you, but was pretty star struck (cast members aren’t really supposed to react since every guest is equal) so I stared a little, he told me to have a great day and hell see me around. My second best celeb interaction
There's been some conversations and posts on Reddit & Tumblr about celebs who are not very nice. However, there seems to be quite a few posts about nice celebs. Naturally the boy Evans gets a few mentions.
He really does seem like a nice guy!!!
Last Edit: Aug 19, 2018 19:17:40 GMT by capsbestgirl
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” —Eckhart Tolle
Captain America & Wonder Woman Are 2018's Top Movie-Inspired Halloween Costumes
B. Alan Orange— October 30th, 2018in Movie News
In the days leading up to Halloween, FandangoNOW, the premium digital streaming service from Fandango, surveyed nearly 1,500 film fans about the recent movie characters (from October 31, 2017-Octoer 31, 2018) that inspired their costumes this Halloween. And the results shouldn't be too surprising.
The film fan survey reveals that Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot in Justice League) and Shuri (Letitia Wright in Black Panther) topped the list for ladies, while Captain America (Chris Evans in Avengers: Infinity War) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman from Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War) were tops for the men. For team costumes, Halloween-goers will be looking to Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther and Deadpool 2's X-Force for costume ideas. The majority of these films are available for streaming and costume inspiration at FandangoNOW. Says Fandango Managing Editor Erik Davis.
"It's exciting to see so many Halloween costumes inspired by the colorful movies of the last twelve months. It's interesting to see fan support for Marvel and DC characters at an all-time high, plus October's most memorably wicked characters, Venom and Michael Myers, making the final cut."
Most of the top movie-inspired Halloween costumes come from the world of superheroes. There are only two female costumes that aren't directly influenced by the world of Marvel and DC. Yet, they both come from the exact same movie. Rey came in at number 4, while Leia is at number 8, with both listed from The Last Jedi, though it's possible that there will be quite a few different Leia's running around Trick or Treating, with variations from A New Hope to Return of the Jedi.
There is only one male movie-inspired Halloween costume in this year's top ten list that doesn't come from the pages of a comic book, with Michael Myers sliding in all the way at the bottom. Michael Myers has been a go-to Halloween costume since the character first debuted in John Carpenter's classic way back in 1978. So, with the slasher having the number one movie these past two weeks in a row, it's not much of a surprise to see him included. There are no Star Wars top ten costumes for men this year, and we're a little surprised to see that Red Miller, from Nicolas Cage's Mandy failed to make the list. If you're worried about running into someone with the same costume, we got your back. Just take a look at the complete list of top 2018 movie-inspired costumes for women, men and groups. Then dress as something else.
Top 10 Female Movie-Inspired Costumes
1. Wonder Woman (Justice League) 2. Shuri (Black Panther) 3. Valkyrie (Thor: Ragnarok) 4. Rey (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) 5. Scarlet Witch (Avengers: Infinity War) 6. Hela (Thor: Ragnarok) 7. Gamora (Avengers: Infinity War) 8. Leia (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) 9. General Okoye (Black Panther) 10. Domino (Deadpool 2)
Top 10 Male Movie-Inspired Costumes
1. Captain America (Avengers: Infinity War) 2. Black Panther (Black Panther) 3. Thor (Thor: Ragnarok) 4. Deadpool (Deadpool 2) 5. Spiderman (Avengers: Infinity War) 6. Loki (Thor: Ragnarok) 7. Doctor Strange (Avengers: Infinity War) 8. Iron Man (Avengers: Infinity War) 9. Venom (Venom) 10. Michael Myers (Halloween)
Top 10 Group Movie-Inspired Costumes
1. Avengers: Infinity War 2. Black Panther 3. Deadpool 2 (The X-Force) 4. Incredibles 2 5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 6. Thor: Ragnarok 7. Justice League 8. Solo: A Star Wars Story 9. Jumanji 10. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
I was just doing some research into Stan Lee and Chris and came across this that I've never seen before. Must be overtired because it actually made me a bit watery eyed....
This Is The Marvel Actor Stan Lee Says He's Bonded With The Most
Everybody has his or her own favourite Marvel hero. Some people love Iron Man, other people love Thor; Marvel legend Stan Lee is no different. Over the years, he has struck up a strong relationship with many people within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This begs one interesting question: which MCU actor has Stan Lee bonded with the most over the franchise's eight-year history?
Stan Lee recently made an appearance on Larry King Now, and he was able to quickly answer that question when the host raised the issue:
So it seems that Chris Evans and Stan Lee have developed a bond unlike any other shared between members of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That being said, Stan Lee does sort of hint that Chris Evans has a bit of an advantage over other Marvel actors. As he portrayed the character Johnny Storm, a.k.a The Human Torch, in Fantastic Four, as well as Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer, he has had the opportunity to meet Stan Lee prior to the very existence of the MCU.
Of course, being the nice guy that he is, Stan Lee doesn’t entirely play favourites. He makes sure to note that he loves all the actors who play his beloved heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he has managed to strike up strong bonds with all of them over the course of the last eight years. Still, let's not forget that Captain America was one of the first superheroes he ever worked on.
Chris Evans is an actor who has really grown into his role as the Marvel Cinematic Universe has worn on. He seemed like a decent fit when Captain America: The First Avenger hit theatres back in 2011, and with each successive film he has seemingly become more and more comfortable with the role of Steve Rogers. In fact, as time has worn on he has arguably become one of the pivotal faces of the MCU—even rivalling the iconography of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark on numerous occasions. He plays the role of the Star-Spangled Avenger so well, it’s not hard to see why Stan Lee respects him so much.
Don't take our word for it. Check out the clip below to see what Stan Lee has to say regarding the matter:
Why Ex-Captain America Chris Evans Is the Next Harrison Ford
With his Mossad agent turn in geopolitical thriller “The Red Sea Diving Resort,” the man formerly known as Captain America has kicked off a thrilling new chapter in his career.
Superhero duty has been very good to Chris Evans, who made a splash as the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch and then skyrocketed to superstardom as the Avengers’ Captain America. However, with his Marvel tenure now at an apparent end following Avengers: Endgame—which saw his patriotic warrior return from a time-traveling assignment as an elderly man content to hand over his shield to Anthony Mackie’s Falcon—the question is, where does the 38-year-old actor go from here?
The immediate answer is to The Red Sea Diving Resort, a Netflix-exclusive feature debuting this Wednesday, July 31. Directed by Gideon Raff, the creator of Israel’s Prisoners of War (i.e. the basis for Showtime’s Homeland), it’s an inspired-by-true-events affair about Mossad agents who in the early 1980s rescued Jewish Ethiopian refugees from their civil war-wracked homeland. They did this via a truly crazy plan: sneaking them to a ramshackle hotel in Sudan known as the Red Sea Diving Resort, which the Israeli government leased from the Sudanese government, and from which they smuggled them across the sea to Israel by Navy SEAL-manned motorboats. Considering this took place in a crime-infested Muslim region, it was, per Mossad boss Ethan Levin (Ben Kingsley), a thoroughly “reckless” mission. But as envisioned by Raff’s film, it wasn’t impossible, thanks to a crackerjack team led by Ari Levinson, here embodied by Evans with his trademark noble, roguish charm.
I’m not saying that, in The Red Sea Diving Resort, he’s playing Captain Israel. But I’m also not saying he’s NOT playing him either.
With his latest, Evans reconfirms that, no matter his Tom Cruise-caliber heartthrob looks, he’s the heir apparent to Harrison Ford’s marquee mantle. Like his predecessor, he has a rugged, morally upright, charismatic persona that’s equally appealing to men and women, and one that he’s confident and talented enough to play against—such as in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, in which he pointedly subverted his superhero badassery, or in this fall’s Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s original murder-mystery, whose trailer he’s already stolen. Whether clean-cut or shaggy (in The Red Sea Diving Resort, he’s still sporting Avengers: Infinity War’s scruffy beard), Evans boasts macho muscle, ladies’ man sex appeal and a jovial sense of humor (see, if you haven’t, 2001’s Not Another Teen Movie), all of it wrapped up in an ethical He-Man package bolstered by his real-world social media pronouncements against President Trump and in favor of sensible liberal causes.
In that regard, The Red Sea Diving Resort is the prototypical venture for Evans at this particular moment in time, capitalizing on both his Captain America national-hero stoutness and his personal support of principled political policy. Introduced doing push-ups and pull-ups, and then saving a young boy from gunmen, his Ari is an upstanding doesn’t-play-by-the-rules stud in a bomber jacket and aviators, and he carries the brunt of the espionage action, which finds the Mossad squad trying to complete its covert task while simultaneously running the hotel for unexpected busloads of tourists. There’s no doubt that this is traditional white-savior territory, and yet Evans has an irresistible good-guy charisma that obscures any clichés on display, including an upbeat getting-work-done montage set, amusingly, to Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf.”
Despite the familiarity of Evans’ rah-rah performance in The Red Sea Diving Resort, the film nonetheless serves as a departure for its headliner, insofar as it casts him in more decidedly adult terms. That process began with 2015’s romantic comedies Playing it Cool and Before We Go (the latter of which he directed), as well as his 2018 Broadway run as a shady cop opposite Michael Cera and Brian Tyree Henry in Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero. He’ll continue down that path with his upcoming Apple+ series Defending Jacob, an adaptation of William Landay’s 2012 bestseller about an assistant district attorney whose teenage son becomes the prime suspect in the grisly murder of a classmate. That project appears primed to further capitalize on his aura of sensitive, decent heroism, even as it allows him to plumb grown-up depths of doubt, regret and loyalty.
Not that one should expect Evans to turn his back on the larger-than-life blockbusters that have transformed him into an international star; the upcoming Antoine Fuqua-directed Inspire, a sci-fi epic about people who can access memories of their past lives, will likely require him to switch back into disaster-averting mode. But Evans’ recent non-Marvel track record suggests that he’s more interested in investigating new avenues than retracing his footsteps. Knives Out, in which he’ll play a possibly homicidal member of a star-studded ensemble, is evidence of that fact, as is The Devil All the Time, an upcoming Netflix film from Antonio Campos (The Sinner) that concerns a serial killer couple, a corrupt sheriff and a less-than-stalwart priest, and which will pair Evans with his old web-slinging friend, Tom Holland, alongside Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård and Mia Wasikowska. That earlier talk of post-Cap retirement, it’s clear, wasn’t to be believed.
Chris Evans stars in The Red Sea Diving Resort. Marcos Cruz/Netflix
Evans is currently in a position similar to Ford’s in the aftermath of Star Wars and Indiana Jones—namely, one where he can do whatever he wants and, therefore, wholly shape and control his big-screen image. Though he hasn’t, to date, gravitated toward the likes of a Peter Weir or Roman Polanski (as Ford did with 1985’s Witness and 1988’s Frantic), there’s significant reason to believe that a turn into auteurist country may be right around the corner, given the upcoming Knives Out and The Devil All the Time, as well as his past collaborations with Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim) and Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer).
All of which is to say that Evans seems poised for an even bigger, brighter and more diverse future, especially when his current situation is viewed in the context of a 2019 Hollywood that’s woefully short on established movie-star draws at the box office (and on streaming services). With its timely subject matter and rousing if conventional action, The Red Sea Diving Resort is thus a canny bridge-straddling effort, delivering enough of Evans’ bread-and-butter appeal to please longtime fans, while simultaneously letting him prove, via some breakneck geopolitical drama, that he’s more than just a fortunate beneficiary of the Marvel hit-making machine.
Not to mention that, in light of Endgame’s time travel shenanigans, any bets against him once more donning those stars-and-stripes tights are probably premature.
So, I’m new here but I really wanted to know if anyone heard the rumor/story about Before We Go. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but the story goes that he was approached to star in it, but that didn’t pan out. He read the script again, talked to his agent about it and took the movie because of his character’s name (Nick). I guess there’s someone who means a lot to him who loves that name, and that’s why he starred in the movie besides directing it.