Krasinski recalls losing Captain America role to Chris Evans
AQuiet Place actor John Krasinski says that he never sought to explore the action-hero territory, and so losing out on the Captain America role to Chris Evans, who he thought deserved to play the role, did not affect him.
The 38-year-old actordirector remembers finding out that the makers had chosen Evans for Captain America: The First Avenger, on his wife Emily Blunt’s birthday, eight years ago. Krasinski says Evans’ quintessential American looks meant he was the right fit for the role.
“My agent called and said, ‘They’re going to go with Chris Evans’. And I remember I said, ‘Yeah, look at him. He’s Captain America’,” Krasinski told Variety magazine.
The actor, who will next star in the American espionage drama Jack Ryan, says his wife offered to cancel their evening plans, but he decided against it. “I said, ‘It’s Chris Evans. Of course we’re going to dinner’,” he says.
Evans’ career arguably got a new lease after he starred in 2011’s Captain
KRASINSKI GOT TO KNOW ABOUT EVANS’ CASTING AS CAPTAIN AMERICA ON WIFE EMILY BLUNT’S BIRTHDAY, EIGHT YEARS AGO
America. He went on to play the part in The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), this year’s Avengers: Infinity War, and its upcoming 2019 sequel. PTI