‘Succession’ Star Jeremy Robust Reveals He Virtually Performed Captain America’s Pre-Transformation Physique In ‘The First Avenger’ – Deadline

Succession’s Jeremy Robust says he was very almost forged as Captain America. Properly, Captain America’s pre-serum scrawny physique anyway. The concepts was that it will be Chris Evans’ head audiences noticed, digitally plopped onto Robust’s physique.

“They informed me there was a top-secret movie about Captain America,” Robust informed The Occasions U.Okay. of the for the 2011 origin movie. “They wanted somebody to play Captain America’s younger physique, earlier than he turns right into a superhero. They stated they wanted a transformational actor and would use CGI to place the precise actor’s face and voice over my very own.”

Not precisely a career-making flip, however to Robust it was tempting.

“I used to be broke,” he informed the paper, “I wanted cash. I thought-about it. However that’s my story of L.A. It was simply by no means going to occur for me right here. It didn’t really feel like what I needed to supply was valued…And the following day I went again to New York and did a play a few veteran from Afghanistan in a wheelchair in the course of the blackout of 2003.”

Not even Chris Evans, who grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts with Robust, knew of the close to miss. “Oh no!” he replied on studying the information. It appears Evans is a longtime fan, ever since he noticed Robust play a Hobbit as a child, a efficiency he remembered as “phenomenal.”