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How did Marvel transform Chris Evans into skinny Steve Rogers for Captain America: The First Avenger? CGI and body doubles were part of the process.
Here's how Marvel Studios transformed Chris Evans into skinny Steve Rogers for Captain America: The First Avenger . Playing a hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe requires actors to be in great physical shape, and Evans was up to the challenge of looking and moving like a superhero throughout his tenure as Captain America. Audiences first saw Evans' superhero transformation in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger . While it's more than fair to give Evans credit for his compelling portrayal of the beloved Avenger, Captain America's skinny body double was just as important for taking Cap's story from Marvel Comics to the screen. Indeed, Captain America's skinny-to-buff transformation was crucial in showing the full effects of the Super Soldier Serum, completing Steve Rogers' journey towards becoming the MCU's first super soldier .
For the first act of Captain America: The First Avenger , audiences saw Steve Rogers as he was before becoming one of the world’s greatest heroes. Growing up in Brooklyn, Steve was short and skinny compared to most other men similar in age. According to the Captain America exhibit in the MCU, Steve was only 5'4 and weighed 95 pounds pre-serum. Despite his small frame, skinny Steve Rogers still had the heart and morals that would later make him the obvious choice to become Captain America. Once Dr. Abraham Erskine's (Stanley Tucci) Super Soldier Serum was running through his veins, Steve was suddenly 6'2 and 240 pounds of pure muscle and showcased Evans' true physique. But, thanks to the magic of moviemaking and planning on Marvel’s part, Evans played skinny Steve Rogers too.
Steve Rogers' transformation laid the foundations for Captain America's massive impact on the MCU in a character arc that lasted nearly a decade and helped define the MCU's first three phases. From becoming The First Avenger in 2011 and saving the world in 2012's Avengers , Cap went on to defend his fellow superheroes in 2016's Captain America: Civil War and even wield Mjolnir against Thanos in 2019's Avengers: Endgame . During the Endgame epilogue – Captain America's bittersweet last moments in the MCU – Rogers gets back to his skinny self after he returns the Infinity Stones and Mjolnir back to their respective timelines, choosing to live a normal life with Peggy and hand over his iconic shield to Sam Wilson, who eventually becomes Captain America in MCU Phase 4 . In short, Steve Rogers' physicality has perfectly matched his character arc in the MCU, and none of this would be possible without Captain America's skinny body double, Leander Deeny, in Captain America: The First Avenger .
Marvel Studios used an elaborate process to turn Evans into a pre-super-soldier Steve Rogers. They hired Lola Visual Effects to be in charge of bringing the transformation to life. The abbreviated version of the work required a combination of digitally shrinking Evans, using Leander Deeny as a body double, and grafting Evans' performance on top of Deeny's. This required filming scenes with skinny Steve Rogers in three different ways through a pain-staking process. Reflective of the time and effort put in by director Joe Johnston and cinematographer Shelly Johnson while filming these foundational scenes, skinny Captain America would go on to inspire more stories about Rogers' heroism down the line. The process began with the director and cinematographer filming only Evans doing the scene. They then had Deeny shoot the same scene and mimic Evans’ performance and mannerisms to the best of his ability. Finally, the crew filmed a clean plate shot of the scene that is just of the background and without actors.
Once all of the versions of each scene were completed, it was up to Lola Visual Effects to bring them together to create skinny Steve Rogers’ final look. They'd start with scaling Chris Evans down to Deeny's size so they matched, with the plate shots used to digitally replace what Evans' larger body previously covered. This smaller version of Evans still had his natural build, though, so the next step was digitally placing Evans' face on top of Deeny's pre- Super Soldier Serum frame. That might sound simple enough, but Lola had to tinker with the process due to Evans' facial structure and neck being bulkier than Deeny's. Otherwise, skinny Steve Rogers would have had the face and strong jawline of Evans’ usual look and be disproportionate to how the character should appear pre-serum.
The end result of the process to make skinny Steve Rogers speaks for itself, as the CGI work still holds up several years later. Marvel Studios even went back to the technique for Captain America: The Winter Soldier . Evans briefly played skinny Steve Rogers again in a flashback scene with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) , but this time Christopher George Sarris provided the smaller frame instead of Deeny. It isn’t known why Deeny didn’t return to help bring skinny Steve Rogers to life, but Marvel found a good replacement for him in Sarris.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier proved to be the last time skinny Steve Rogers has been shown in the MCU so far, with the exception of his role in What If...? where he is unable to undergo the super-soldier transformation and remains skinny Steve (played by Josh Keaton) in an alternate-universe retelling of The First Avenger . However, Evans transformed into old Steve at the end of Avengers: Endgame . Since the older Steve was simply Evans’ version of Captain America several decades from now, the process of aging Steve up was done a bit more practically. Whether or not skinny Steve Rogers appears again in live-action will come down to whether or not Evans returns to the MCU . There are rumors that it could happen, but skinny Steve isn’t guaranteed to return even if Evans does.
Steve Rogers isn't the only Avenger to undergo such a dramatic physical transformation, as Avengers: Endgame 's Fat Thor returns to his original shape and fitness level in Thor: Love and Thunder . Chris Hemsworth's stark transformation from the musclebound God of Thunder into Fat Thor is due to the trauma caused not just by the Avengers failing to stop Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, but also by the prior destruction of Asgard in Thor: Ragnarok . In Thor: Love and Thunder , Thor sheds the weight through exercise and hard work, reflective of the character's personal growth over the years. Although there's validity in the criticisms against Marvel's use of Fat Thor for laughs, in the end, there's no doubt that Thor's changing shape is crucial to his still-developing character arc.
The process of Chris Hemsworth's Fat Thor transformation was much simpler than the complex CGI work necessary to combine Chris Evans and Leander Deeny's performances in Captain America: The First Avenger . However, that doesn't mean that it was easy. Hemsworth had to wear a fat suit that weighed around 60 to 70 pounds and even stuff the sides of his mouth for plumper cheeks. Although the actor had to adjust the way he spoke and work with limited mobility, Hemsworth didn't mind putting in the effort to make Thor's transformation believable. Just as Evans and Deeny's combined work brought to life the origin story of Captain America, the end of Hemsworth's Fat Thor story arc in Thor: Love and Thunder marks a pivotal point in the Asgardian's new life.
Captain America: The First Avenger laid the thematic groundwork for more unusual Marvel stories like "What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?", the animated debut of Steve Rogers as Hydra Stomper . In an alternate universe where Peggy Carter takes the Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers, Howard Stark uses the Tesseract to give skinny Steve the power of Hydra Stomper, a large suit of armor that allows Steve to fight alongside Captain Carter. Echoing the heated Avengers scene in which Cap tells Tony Stark, "Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?" , Peggy reassures Steve in What If...? that he's not "just a skinny kid from Brooklyn, now just in a big metal suit," as the Hydra Stomper is only as good as the hero inside it.
Although Captain America quit being a superhero in Avengers: Endgame , this just goes to show how much Steve's transformation in Captain America: The First Avenger has impacted Marvel's storytelling. Despite being missing in action for years, Marvel will no doubt continue to shape the MCU's future through Captain America's lens . Throughout Phase 4 and Phase 5 of the MCU, Steve's heroic, timeless, and transformative journey will continue to inspire stories seeking to break the traditional limits of the superhero genre.
Cooper Hood is a news and feature writer for Screen Rant. He joined Screen Rant in late 2016 following a year-long stint with MCU Exchange, which came after first developing an MCU blog of his own. He graduated college in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree in Media & Public Communication, with a minor in Media Production. Cooper’s love for movies began by watching Toy Story and Lion King on repeat as a child, but it wasn't until The Avengers that he took an invested interest in movies and the filmmaking process, leading him to discover the world of film journalism. Every year Cooper looks forward to seeing the latest blockbusters from the likes of Marvel, DC, and Star Wars, but also loves the rush to catch up on Oscar films near the end of the year. When he isn’t writing about or watching new releases, Cooper is a fantasy football obsessive and looking to expand his Blu-Ray collection – because physical media is still king! Follow Cooper on Twitter @MovieCooper.
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By Nicole Drum
- May 1, 2019 02:05 pm EDT
One of the big things that Avengers: Endgame set out to do was bring together the stories of 21 previous films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and offer a conclusion to the overall Infinity Saga as well as the story arcs for some of the franchise's beloved characters. And that's not a spoiler. Fans have known for a while that various actors had fulfilled their contracts with Marvel Studios and would, at a minimum, would step back into more supportive roles if not hang up their suits for good. It should come as no surprise then that among the characters to get significant conclusion to their current story arc was Captain America. The problem is, however, that it makes no sense.
WARNING: There are massive spoilers for Avengers: Endgame below this point. Stop reading now if you don't want to know very specific details of the film and its conclusion.
Even before Endgame hit theaters there was a prevailing fan theory that Captain America/Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) would get some measure of a happy ending -- specifically that he would somehow be reunited with Peggy Cater (Haley Atwell) in the past either literally or in a beautiful afterlife moment with Cap's spirit being reunited with his one true love in the end. Fortunately, the latter did not happen. Captain America did not die in Endgame, but he did end up reunited with Peggy. With the vanished restored and Thanos well and truly defeated, Cap uses the Quantum GPS Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) devised and some Pym Particles to return the Infinity Stones to where they were taken in history so as not to create alternative timelines and realities. What should have been a brief 5 second trip ended up going seemingly awry when Cap didn't return. Instead, he shows up on a park bench moments later, a very, very old man having opted to remain in the past and "get a life" like Tony had spoken of.
Fans then find out about that life in the film's final scene. Captain America returned to 1945 and reunited with Peggy Carter . The last moments of the film are of Steve and Peggy dancing cheek-to-cheek in their living room, in love and happy, finally getting that dance after all. Now, we're not arguing that the scene isn't moving and beautiful. It 100% is and it's exactly what many fans wanted for Cap. The problem isn't that it's not an emotional punch in the best possible way. The problem is that it does not work, either by the time travel rules established in the film nor by what would be in character for Steve Rogers.
First, the time travel issue. While the term "plot hole" gets tossed around a lot, Cap's whole living out his life scenario gets pretty close to the definition of one by breaking time travel rules. A plot hole, generally, occurs when a film violates the conventions or rules of the world as laid out in the movie, book, or whatever entertainment media we're dealing with. In Endgame , one of the rules of time travel is that you can't alter the past and have it impact the future . For example, when Rhodey (Don Cheadle) suggests they simply go to the past and kill baby Thanos to prevent the Snap from every happening at all, Bruce/Smart Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) explains it doesn't work that way. Changing something in the past would not change the "future" aka, their present.
So, with that rule, when Cap goes back to 1945 and stays, it would have to mean that he's now in an alternative reality, one that branches off from the story we already know of Captain America sacrificing himself to save the world, just this time around he doesn't end up on ice for 70 years. And if that is how the movie presented things then it'd be a lovely ending, close the book. Instead, though, we get elderly Steve in 2023, passing the shield over to Sam/Falcon (Anthony Mackie). And even that could still work -- had Steve shown up on the Quantum platform as an old man. In that scenario, it would have simply been that Steve held on to his GPS and particles and zipped himself into the "main" timeline to say goodbye. But he doesn't. He simply materializes on a bench -- and we don't see the GPS device at all -- implying that he lived out his happily ever after in some sort of main continuity. Not only does that not work with the rules of Endgame time travel, it also is so far outside of Cap's character that it's disconcerting.
Captain America has always been the hero cannot look away when evil is present. He also is the character that literally never gave up on his friend Bucky/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). Steve going back to 1945 to live out the simple life with Peggy would mean that he left Bucky to suffer, turned a blind eye to Hydra, and potentially even erased Peggy's own happy life without him. Remember, in the main timeline Peggy was married and had children. While he likely ended up having a family with Peggy, too, it still eliminates the "original" children she had with whoever her mystery husband was.
And the whole "maybe Cap was Peggy's unnamed husband" argument doesn't work because that also breaks the time travel rules. There are other issues about Cap going back alone to return the stones in the first place, anyway. If the stones have to be returned to the exact moment they are taken, how the heck is Steve supposed to be at two places in New York at roughly the same time to replace the Time and Mind Stone? And where's the Scepter that the Mind Stone would need to be replaced in? Remember, Captain America took the Scepter with him. And as for the Soul Stone, how would that even work?
Ultimately, when you step back from the warm and fuzzy of Captain America's finale while it is a beautiful moment of fan service, none of it works beyond the emotional response. The math doesn't add up and instead leaves a weird, messy tangle that fans will be trying to sort out for a long time to come.
Avengers: Endgame is in theaters now.
What is your take on the Captain America ending? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter @lifeinpolaroid to try to sort out this part of the movie's timeline.
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