Chris Evans, star of Marvel's Captain America movies, played a large part in Steve Rogers’ down-to-earth personality. The origin film of the MCU’s most patriotic superhero is celebrating its 10 year anniversary since its original release on July 22, 2011. The film, which was the fifth film in the MCU, was directed by Joe Johnston, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and produced by MCU mastermind, Kevin Feige. 

Captain America: The First Avenger tells the origin story of everyone’s favorite Nazi-fighting soldier turned superhero, Steve Rogers/Captain America, played by the inimitable Chris Evans. It held a different energy than the previous MCU films at the time of the Iron Man and Thor franchises, which both sported more boastful, snarky, and cocky (yet, still incredibly lovable) main heroes. Steve Rogers was something else: humble, earnest, and moral to a fdault. He didn’t start from large beginnings such as the Stark empire or the royal bloodline of literal gods. Instead, he started as a smaller kid from Brooklyn, NY who was suffering from various physical and health issues that prevented him from joining the fight for his country. It wasn’t until the classic scientific-experiment-of-man plot device that his physical strength matched his inner strength, making him the hero fans know and love. 

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As it turns out, in an interview with Yahoo!, Markus and McFeely revealed that Evans played a large role in making Steve Rogers a more humble leading hero. As the writers tell it, once Evans joined the film, he helped reshape Cap’s character into one with no snark, eliminating a few jokes from the script here and there. Apparently, Evans was clearer than others on who Steve Rogers needed to be from the outset, which is a man already internally capable of donning the shield. Read what Markus said below:

“He was very conscious of not wanting snark,” Markus says. “It was a very good understanding of Captain America, which is that if this guy’s going to fly as a character and as an authority figure, eventually, he’s got to have the gravity right away, no matter what the situation. Which is what we all came to realize, that Steve Rogers was born Captain America, he just didn’t have the body for it. And Evans got that. I think he may have taken a joke or two out is what I remember.”

Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter in Captain America the First Avenger

Though Evans played a large role in developing the Captain America character, Markus and McFeely definitely got the hang of it. They went on to pen the rest of Captain America’s solo adventures apart from the Avengers, as well as two of the top three most successful MCU films: Infinity War and Endgame. Now, Markus and McFeely have joined the Russo brothers’ AGBO Films and are set to pen many future Russo films including a reunion with Evans for the highly anticipated espionage action thriller, The Gray Man, which also stars Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas. Additionally, they are onboard to write the Russo brothers’ untitled Cambridge Analytica film, as well as the adaptation of the sci-fi book, The Electric State, which will star Millie Bobby Brown. 

The trust between the cast and crew is a part of what makes the MCU so great, so it’s no surprise that Evans was hands-on when embodying America’s first Avenger. All throughout the MCU there are heartwarming stories of directors, writers, and producers building these famous characters with the cast. Though Evans is done as Captain America, the mantle is currently upheld by the two holdovers from the franchise in their own Disney+ series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

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Source: Yahoo!