The Click Times: Chris Evans may have dropped Captain America’s shield, but he has a new badge of honor: He’s been named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man.
People’s Choices were announced Monday night on Stephen Colbert’s late-night show and the magazine’s website. Evans played Captain America in Marvel’s superhero films for nearly a decade, taking the baton from another Avenger, Paul Rudd.
“My mom would be delighted,” he told the magazine’s cover story, which ran on newsstands on Friday. “She’s proud of what I’ve done, but it’s really something she can brag about.”
He also knew he was likely to be teased by close friends. “It’s really just a point of bullying,” he joked in an interview. “The time is ripe for harassment.”
What might bother him are co-stars and past winners of Sexiest Men like Rudd, Ryan Reynolds and Chris Hemsworth. (Hemsworth, who played Thor in a Marvel movie, was the first Avenger of the Year to win the People’s Award, first awarded to Mel Gibson in 1985.)
Other past recipients include John Legend, Dwayne Johnson, Idris Elba, Adam Levine, Richard Gere, Channing Tatum and David Beckham.
People interviewed Evans, 41, at a farmhouse in Georgia, and the actor talked about finding a better work-life balance. “The most enjoyable aspect of my career right now is feeling confident enough to get my foot off the gas,” he said.
Evans’ first film role was in 2000’s “The New Arrivals,” where he played superhero Johnny Storm in the two Fantastic Four films released in 2005 and 2007. But he rose to fame in 2011 with the release of Captain America: The First Avenger. “
He has since played the sane superhero in 10 Marvel movies, dropping his shield after saving the universe in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
Evans has become a very rich star, dubbing Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s Lightyear film and playing a sadistic assassin trying to kill Reynolds in Nextflix’s “Grey Man,” released this year. .
The actor told PEOPLE that he was thinking about marriage and family, saying: “It’s definitely what I want.”
However, he said he did not wish to speak publicly about his personal life. “Something you want just for yourself, or just for my family and friends.”
The Boston native also continues to work on A Starting Point, a civic engagement site he co-founded in 2020.
As Evans plans the next part of his life and career, he fully expects the People’s Honor to be a landmark honor.
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