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Chris Evans Not Another Teen Heartthrob
That dapper dark-haired delicious hunk. Every teen movie has one: Ashton Kutcher, Josh Hartnett and the king of teen flicks, Freddie Prinze Jr. Well, ladies and gents, meet the next pretty young thing, sweet enough to take your breath away but with the acting cojones (Lee Strasberg-trained) to back up the punim. Straight from the land of the Celtics, the Sox and the 'Smith, It's Not Another Teen Movie's Chris Evans. A&F's Marcelle Karp develops yet another crush.
So I watched Not Another Teen Movie last night.
I apologize!
It spoofs pretty much every Jennifer Love Hewitt movie ever made.
Yeah, of course. You have to, because she's the queen of teen movies.
So who's the king of teen movies?
I'm gonna say Freddie Prinze Jr. If you look at his characters--don't quote me on this--he plays the same guy in everything he does. They were looking for a Freddie Prinze-esque actor. My character's supposed to spoof him--just really over the top.
So how did somebody who's had a Lee Strasberg background go from doing classical training to doing a spoof?
Well, spoof stuff to me is like theater, where you have to perform to the person in the back of the auditorium. Everything has to be big and over the top and cheesy and played for the comedy. You're not thinking in your head about your character, you're thinking about the comic timing and where the jokes fall. It's a completely different type of acting.
In terms of Hollywood life, have you been to Hef's house yet?
No, but I'm dyin' to get there! That will be the dream! But I don't wanna go as just a nobody. I don't want to go and just be sort of the little wallflower. If I go, it would be great to be like Brad Pitt and go down to the grotto. I want access there.
Let's go inside your background a little bit. Where are you from, and how did you make it to Hollywood?
I'm from Boston. Actually, I grew up in a little suburb right outside Boston. 'Boston' sounds tough, so I like to say Boston, but I'm from Sudbury. It's a great town and I love it to death. I think my junior-going-into-senior year, I asked my parents if I could go to New York, just for the summer, and intern at a casting agency, just to meet people and get a feel for the business. They said yeah, so I moved there for about three months in the summer and I lived in Brooklyn.
Where in Brooklyn?
Brooklyn Heights. So it sounds cool to say "Brooklyn," but it was like the prep school of Brooklyn. I'm not tough at all, I lived there and worked at a great casting place for about three months. I didn't do very many things of importance, but I got to talk to agents every day. I graduated in January of my senior year, moved back to New York and called one of those agents and said, "Do you mind if I come and read for you?" He said sure, and we worked together, he's the guy who got me auditioning in New York. After a couple months I got sent out to L.A. to test for a show for Fox. All it is is luck, really. At a certain point, everyone in the business is good. It's not that you're better than someone else; it's just a look, really. The cards just fell my way and I got the show that summer. I got hooked, so I just stayed out here.
I guess being from Boston you're just sick of the cold.
You know, to be honest, I miss it. I'm a hot person and I just hate sweating. It's uncomfortable and you can't escape it, because when you think about sweating you just sweat more. If you're cold, you can do some jumping jacks, you can put on a coat--if you're sweating, there's nothing you can do.
Well, it's a summer vibe out here, and it's all about being topless. So did your managers give you instructions on how to really work your six-pack?
I am pale as can be. If I take off my shirt, it's painful. The beach and I do not agree. And I try and work out, but I'm also incredibly lazy, so it's tough to get the ball rolling for me. So I just go into my auditions with a sweatshirt and hope they can imagine me with a six-pack. When I found out I had to take off my shirt in Teen movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, "It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle."
Hypothetical question: You're a big movie star, and you're walking down the street, and a thousand girls are running toward you. What do you do?
Initially, there'd obviously be frustration, but you gotta think you asked for it. You know when you got into this there's that possibility. So you can bitch as much as you want and you can complain, but bottom line? I can breathe and I can walk and I can see and I got people that love me, so things are never going to be that bad.
Who's bigger with Bostonians, Aerosmith or the Celtics?
(whispering reverentially) Celtics. The Celtics are legendary. When I was younger my father had season tickets to the old Garden, so I used to go all the time--I remember seeing Larry Byrd play Michael Jordan. But my father's a dentist in Boston, and he was gonna do work on Steven Tyler's mouth. He ended up not getting the work done, but still, it was the biggest deal in my house. And my girlfriend did a video with Aerosmith, so she knows them.
Who's your girlfriend?
Jessie Biel, from 7th Heaven.
Has she used her clout to get you a guest spot?
No, but we always talk about that.
What's the deal? She's got an in!
She has to marry someone on the show--she's leaving this year. So I was just like, "Hey babe, wouldn't it be cute...?" So you know, we'll see--maybe we'll give Mr. Spelling a ring.
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