“This was a new scene, after we’d shot everything else in the training camp. We felt that we needed something that showed that he could think, and that he was clever, and he had ideas, not just that he wouldn’t give up. Interestingly enough, Rogers had to disobey orders to do that. Well, he knew when to do disobey orders.”
“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.”
“What we also found, is that we had gymnasts come in to do things, and Chris could do the same stuff that they could do, but it would look like Chris Evans. When the body doubles or the gymnasts or the runners did it, it just didn’t look like him. He has such a unique way of moving, and he could pretty much do all of his own physical stuff that wasn’t dangerous. Like this shot right here, we had a gymnast do this, and Chris actually ended up doing it better. That’s Chris here. He hops up on a tank and over a 12-foot wall. It looks effortless but it’s not that easy!”
“This is the moment that Chris Evans worked out for for several months. Before we shot that scene he dropped to the floor and must have done about 50 push-ups in what seemed like about 9 seconds. It was pretty amazing to watch. The best thing about that is that shot is not enhanced, it’s just him. That’s how he actually looked in every skinny Steve shot. ”
“What a pivotal moment in the movie narratively and on a character level for him to be looking for a friend and for her to tell him ‘no’. There are a few call-back lines in the movie, and that’s one of them, ‘You might be in the wrong business.‘”
“This is a really great illustrative moment of the relationship between these two guys and the trust that they have. There was a lot of conversation about how Falcon would carry Cap without it looking like a bit from Saturday Night Live. I think we got it right. ”
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