Chris Evans Talks Captain America Costume

Empire magazine chatted with Chris Evans about the Captain America: The First Avenger costume and the testing of the shield. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

“It’s an amazing costume. Given the fact that his costume is red, white and blue, and it’s tight, and it could be kind of flash and over the top – and given the fact that the movie takes place in the ‘40s and ‘50s – they’ve done a really good job of making it look really cool.”

“I think everyone that’s going to see it is going to say, ‘Okay, well done. Well done. I think they got the costume right. The casting they completely ruined, but the costume they nailed!'”

In comparison to his lithe, skin-tight Fantastic Four costume, Evans says: “[In the FF suit] …you could move around quite well. This is a little more cumbersome. It doesn’t exactly breathe the way the Fantastic Four costume breathed, but it’s the way it should be. Any type of World War II uniform would be a little chunky, and I think that’s what kind of gives it its character.”

To read more on how they’ve been testing which shield to use, go here! Captain America: The First Avenger starts shooting this month in London for a July 22, 2011 release.

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