Marvel star Chris Evans says he’s ‘continually searching for an exit plan’ of acting

Chris Evans says he’s frequently searching for an escape route to leave acting, in spite of completely loving what he accomplishes for a living.

The “Captain America” star visited with his Marvel Cinematic Universe co-star Scarlett Johansson for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series and uncovered a fascinating tidbit about how he either keeps himself propelled to keep acting or works himself out of retirement – he isn’t exactly certain.

“Every couple of months, I decide I’m done acting,” Evans said. “This has been my thing for decades now. I’m always looking for a way out, but I do love it.”

The 38-year-old bankable star made an immense sprinkle onto the film scene after breakout roles in “Not Another Teen Movie” in 2001 and followed that up with an enormous performance in “Fantastic Four” in 2005, guaranteeing his roster status among actors reasonable for superhero roles.

The “Avengers” staple alluded to the absence of creative freedom on the film side of the show-business for his reason behind dipping his toe into the streaming waters which have since become muddied gratitude to the augmentations of other streaming platforms propelled by popular media entities.

“I think TV right now, those creative minds are given a bit more freedom,” Evans said. “It feels like movies sometimes get inundated with studio notes, and all of a sudden, what was once an original idea becomes boiled down to the lowest common denominator, and then you have no one’s favorite movie but everyone’s lukewarm movie.”

“I think that’s why people may be turning away, and looking to things like streaming service shows that actually are innovative,” added the “Snowpiercer” star.

Evans clarified that the business can lack innovation at times and that he’ll often turn to different avenues of where he can showcase his talents or basically bow gracefully out of the business if those opportunities become scanty.

Evans recently went into the live theater with the Broadway restoration of “Lobby Hero,” in 2018, as per People.

“After a while, the process of filmmaking does get stale. You just want to try and find a new way into what has become very familiar,” he said. “I think what I was hunting for was that prolonged period of time within a scene, thinking it would allow this liberation. It couldn’t have been more to the contrary. When you’re on stage, it’s just like, ‘Man!’ because you have so much to remember.”

In March, the actor explained comments that he was stopping the business in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

“I never said the word ‘retire,’” he told the magazine at the time. “It’s a really obnoxious notion for an actor to say they’re going to retire — it’s not something you retire from.”

Regardless of being on the notorious fence of whether to keep acting or hanging it up, one thing Evans can say is that it’s a wrap for his depiction of his beloved Marvel character – which he said he’s become staggeringly defensive over.

“I think Cap had such a tricky act to stick the landing, and I think they did a really nice job letting him complete his journey,” said Evans. “If you’re going to revisit it, it can’t be a cash grab. … A lot of things would have to come together.”

Evans said he almost gave the chance to become an individual from the Marvel franchise altogether.

“It was such a precious time and jumping onto the movie was a terrifying prospect to me, he recalled. “I said no a bunch of times, and there are a million and one ways it could have gone wrong. It almost feels like maybe we should let this one sit.”