No matter the movie, Chris Evans always seems to be having a good time — something made clear by the outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, and bloopers he’s left behind. Here are some times when Evans just couldn’t keep it together while shooting a scene.
Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a triumph of comedy and sci-fi, and the whole thing feels like a video game without coming across as campy. To be with his dream girl, Ramona Flowers, Scott must defeat her seven evil exes, including Lucas Lee, a former skateboarder turned gravelly-voiced macho movie actor.
Wright enlisted actual action star Chris Evans to play this fictional action star, although Evans is probably not as aggressive, frightening, and toxic as Lucas. Take for example this moment on set, when Evans is supposed to be threatening Scott and instilling deep fear in the underdog. That’s kind of hard to do when you keep losing your train of thought and forgetting your dialogue.
Long before Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson joined the Avengers, they’d already worked together twice: In the 2004 college heist film The Perfect Score, and the 2007 adaptation of the bestselling novel The Nanny Diaries. The future Captain America played Hayden, an upper-crust, Upper East Side “Harvard hottie” love interest for Johansson’s nanny.
The character might be cool and calm, but Evans certainly isn’t. He has a tough time with wordy mouthfuls of dialogue.
He wound up blaming his troubles on loud noises outside of the camera’s view, as well as the fact that there were half a dozen people running straight at him. Solid excuses.
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Vs. his lines | 0:12
The blooper diaries | 0:53
No agent of shield | 1:30
Mad props | 2:17
Lunch is on him | 2:54
Assembly required | 3:31
Still running | 4:09
Waiting on a friend | 4:48