Chris Evans Opens Up About His Unlikely Return to the MCU

Marvel may always need you to keep spoilers from fly whenever one of their new movies drops , but they ca n’t break off themselves – or their own stars – from doing it by talking to the press .

If you ’ve already seenDeadpool and Wolverine , you ’ll know by now Chris Evans makes a cameo : not as the geriatricCaptain AmericaofEndgame , but as Johnny “ The Human Torch ” Storm from the 2005Fantastic Fourmovie . Surprise !

While the actor isrumored to have renewedhis contract with Disney to return in future MCUs task as Captain America , he apparently still could ’ve de jure wriggled out of a Johnny Storm cameo . However , asEntertainment Weeklydescribes , his friendship with Ryan Reynolds made agreeing to do so an easy determination . “ I was so excited . Ryan ’s a buddy . He just shot me a textbook saying , ‘ Listen , might be a longsighted shot , but would you have any interest in reprising something from 20 years ago ? ’ I articulate , ‘ Oh my God ! Of course , ' ” Evans said , after cook a surprisal appearance alongside several other cameo stars from the movie at Marvel’sDeadpool & WolverineCelebration of Life panel at San Diego Comic - Con . “ aboveboard , Ryan might be the only guy rope that I would ’ve done it for because he ’s just mother the Midas touch sensation . His self - awareness makes him almost unvanquishable . He gain the gag before the interview gets a chance to make the prank , so if you ’re plump to revisit a character and you have to find a way to make it work , Ryan ’s humor makes just about everything work , so you feel an automatic sense of safety . ”

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As for the scene in question , Deadpool and Wolverine meet Johnny in “ The Void , ” a location where cast away incarnations of various Marvel characters are put on ice before being erase from cosmos , for good . At first , Deadpool trust he ’s come across the legendary Captain America , only to discover its the fabled Human Torch , instead . The cameo was “ really quick ” and “ pretty easily , ” agree to Evans . “ I just had to aviate in rattling quick , do a couple days of filming , and pilot out . For me , it was pretty easy . Primarily because where we detect Johnny , he ’s mean to be a little more rundown , so the costume did n’t have to be pristine . Those first two movies , that ’s when Marvel was really still prove to find their footing . So everything had to be very precise and had a lot of coming together , a destiny of opinions . This was a little more like , ‘ Yeah , we screw it . We ’ve learn it . ' ”

Still , it was gracious to see the Marvel superstar , now best known for playing a marquee Avenger , back in action as his earlier character . Just in time , before the character regenerate into Joseph Quinn in the Marvel ’s upcoming reboot ! Did you revel Evans ’ cameo , or were you ( like myself ) more aroused by the return of Kelly Hu ’s Lady Deathstrike and her nictation - and - you’ll - overlook it fight with Wesley Snipe ’s Blade ? Nowthat‘s movie house .

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