UPDATE: Chris Evans now claims that Variety quoted him out of context when they reported that the Captain America star was planning to give up acting in order to pursue a career as a director.
“By no means am I planning on retiring. It’s kind of a silly statement,” Evans said on Good Morning America this morning. “But I certainly am going to try to focus a bit more on [directing] at this point.”
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier hits theatres next month, and star Chris Evans has dropped one heck of a spoiler: he no longer wants to be an actor.
Speaking to Variety, the 32-year-old isn’t mincing words about his desire to hang up his superhero suit for good in the near future. “If I’m acting at all, it’s going to be under Marvel contract, or I’m going to be directing,”; Chris says. “I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.”;
Put another way, Chris is already locked into three more Captain America and Avengers movies. After that, he’ll strictly be behind the cameras.
So how long has this been in the works? “I’ve known for a while I wanted to direct,”; Chris confesses. “But [time] never really opens up. There’s another movie to do, there’s another acting job. It just got to the point where I was like, you know what – I have to do this.”;
There is one faint silver lining, of course: the chance he might change his mind. “For all I know, in five years, I might say, “S–––, I miss acting,'”; he says. “Right now, I just want to get behind the camera and make movies.”;
