Los Angeles – “My fear is fear,” revealed a hunky Chris Evans when he talked to us one sunny morning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for his latest action hero movie, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”
Portraying Steve Rogers/Captain America once more in the superhero sequel, the 32-year-old Boston native explained, “My fear is fearing things. Fearing things is the problem, and no matter what the issue is, whether it’s failure…. It’s the problem, it’s unnecessary.”
Chris Evans (Photo by Ruben V. Nepales)
Co-directed by the Russo brothers (Anthony and Joe), “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” happens two years after the events of “The Avengers,” with Steve Rogers residing peacefully in Washington, DC, struggling to adapt to contemporary society. After a S.H.I.E.L.D. compatriot is assailed, Rogers becomes entangled in a mystery that may endanger the globe.
Asked what is his shield or protection in real life, Chris replied, “My family I suppose, because it’s not just protection from people, and my business and my profession, sometimes it’s protection from yourself. Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. People who knew you before you knew to know yourself. We are blessed with this self-awareness but a lot of times, that self-awareness turns on us and if you remember a time in your life before you knew better, before you knew to look at yourself with such a judgmental vision, those are the people who know you best. It’s nice to go back to those people and be around them and remember that time.”
Asked how he is able to stay away from the tabloids, since we don’t hear of him doing drugs, partying or doing other stuff and staying in the background, Chris explained, “Well, it’s certainly been beneficial when you are trying to find different roles, given the fact that there isn’t a pre-conceived understanding of who they think they know you as. But more so than that, it’s about a personal mental health clarity. And this is a tricky business.
“No matter what business you are in, there is going to be brain noise. It’s what the brain does. It makes noise. The root of suffering is listening to that noise. If you can stay out of the public eye, you can maintain some personal stillness in your own life. It’s only going to help you find peace.”
Chris pointed out that every day, he tries to practice stillness. “I have a tattoo on my neck that talks very much about stillness,” he revealed. “It just talks of being in the now, being in the moment, being present. Our consciousness as a people is just so spread out. We are so pre-occupied with past and future and the inability to be present, to be completely accepting of the now is our biggest hurdle. If you can do that, if you can master that, you win, because all life is, is a series of now. You will never meet the future, the future will just be now.”
But isn’t that part of the essence of being in the entertainment business, we asked. “Well that’s the issue, that’s the problem, when you are in LA for an extended period of time, things that shouldn’t matter, start to matter,” he said. “Things that didn’t affect you start to affect you. This is why I go home so often, because this business is saturated with distraction. It’s saturated with pitfalls. It’s like learning a sport. If you are going to learn basketball, you just have to dribble every day, just dribble a little bit. So on a daily basis, when you feel your brain noise activating, when you feel yourself being sad or negative, for some foolish reason, all you have to do is practice just being still and being present.
“So whether it’s sitting in a museum or just sitting on your bed, whatever you can do to silence that brain noise, and just drop into the moment, that’s liberating, that’s the education, that’s the part of growth and it’s necessary. It’s all I fight for really. So it’s not necessarily in a museum. It’s every day. It’s all the time. It’s right here, right now. It’s so easy right now to even let your third eye see yourself and become insecure. But these are the moments where you have to relax and just breathe and don’t allow that noise your brain makes.”
So what’s the tattoo, we asked.
“It’s a quote from a book,” he said. “We will talk later about it. Green Eggs and Ham.”
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Chris Evans’ fears, his ‘Shield,’ and surviving Hollywood
Source: Mb.com.ph (March 30, 2014 at 10:00PM)
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