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Captain America: The First Avenger Audio Commentary:

“Chris Evans gives a subtle and multi-layered performance throughout [this movie]. It was really interesting just to watch him take a scene and perform it in ways that I wasn’t expecting. I always liked seeing what Chris would do first, without any direction, and then it was the matter of steering him slightly in one direction or another, but he really had a handle on who the character was. He plays this in a way that’s totally without irony. He believes it, and it’s not a joke, and it’s not artificial. It’s this earnestness that is so honest that you can’t help but be charmed by it. It seems easy the way he does it, but it’s a hard thing to do. It’s really easy to stray in to melodrama there, and he never does. Or to feel self-conscious about being Captain America, who is this very earnest guy and he really believes in what he believes in. And you have to believe that he believes, or else that doesn’t work, and you do every minute with Chris.”