Good Chris, Bad Chris

CHRIS EVANS CAN PLAY EVERYTHING FROM NICE TO NASTY. HERE ARE FOUR ROLES THAT SHOWCASE HIS RANGE — WHERE HIS KNIVES OUT JERK FITS, ONLY TIME WILL TELL

MR NICE GUY

STEVE ROGERS (THE INFINITY SAGA, 2011-’19)

From The First Avenger to Endgame, the likeable righteousness of the man better known as ‘Cap’ never stopped shining through — even when he went all rogue and anti-un in Civil War. This was the hero who upbraided Tony Stark for swearing in Age Of Ultron (“Language!”), and turned out to be so pure of heart, he was even deemed worthy to wield the mighty magic mallet Mjolnir.

ALRIGHT ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW HIM

CURTIS EVERETT (SNOWPIERCER, 2013) Tough times require tough heroes, and it’s hard to imagine tougher times than those suffered by the repressed have-nots in the rear carriages of the titular, dystopian train of Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. Grizzly bearded Curtis is a man on a bloody, class-war mission, but while he’s on the side of the angels, he’s not without his demons. Humanflesh-eating demons.

WHAT A DICK

LUCAS LEE (SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, 2010)

The leather-jacketed pro skateboarder-turned-star of such blockbusters as You Just Don’t Exist is the most amiable man in Hollywood. After all the other men. Including Tommy Lee Jones. “You really think you can stand a chance against an A-lister, bro?” he sneers at our hero, Scott (Michael Cera)... Before leaving his stunt team to kick the crap out of the kid while he slinks off to check his phone.

JUST THE WORST

MR FREEZY (THE ICEMAN, 2012)

“I thought, ‘What can I do that’s just the opposite of Captain America?’” Evans once asked himself. The answer was to take a role in Ariel Vromen’s true-life thriller as Mr Freezy, a grotty, greasy-haired Mob hitman who drives an ice-cream truck, where he stores the remains of his victims in the freeze box — one of whom, he reveals, he killed by force-feeding her a puffer fish. Chilling.