Chris Evans is proven on the “Knives Out” photograph name on the Four Seasons Hotel on Nov. 15, 2019, in Los Angeles.

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Chris Evans is proven on the “Knives Out” photograph name on the Four Seasons Hotel on Nov. 15, 2019, in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES — Chris Evans could have put down Captain America’s defend however he is obtained a brand new badge of honor: he is been named People journal’s Sexiest Man Alive.

People’s selection was announced Monday night time on Stephen Colbert’s late night time present and on the journal’s web site. Evans, who for almost a decade performed Captain America in Marvel’s sprawling superhero movies, takes the baton from one other Avenger, Paul Rudd.

“My mom will be so happy,” he instructed the journal for its cowl story, which hits newsstands on Friday. “She’s proud of everything I do but this is something she can really brag about.”

He additionally is aware of that he is more likely to be teased by shut associates. “Really this will just be a point of bullying,” he joked in an interview. “It’s ripe for harassment.”

Among these more likely to heckle him are co-stars and former Sexiest Man Alive winners like Rudd, Ryan Reynolds and Chris Hemsworth. (Hemsworth, who performs Thor within the Marvel movies, was the primary Avenger to win People’s annual honor, which was first handed out to Mel Gibson in 1985.)

Other previous honorees embrace John Legend, Dwayne Johnson, Idris Elba, Adam Levine, Richard Gere, Channing Tatum and David Beckham.

People interviewed Evans, 41, at a Georgia farmhouse, the place the actor talked about discovering a greater work-life stability. “The most enjoyable aspect of my career right now is feeling secure enough to take my foot off the gas,” he stated.

Evans’ first movie function got here in 2000’s The New Comers and he performed superhero Johnny Storm in two Fantastic Four movies launched in 2005 and 2007. But he gained widespread fame in 2011 with the discharge of Captain America: The First Avenger.

Since then, he is performed the healthful superhero in 10 Marvel movies, laying down his defend after saving the universe in Avengers: Endgame in 2019.

Evans has develop into a extremely bankable star, voicing the Buzz Lightyear character in Pixar’s Lightyear movie and taking part in a sadistic murderer making an attempt to kill Reynolds in Nextflix’s The Gray Man — each launched this yr.

The actor instructed People he is interested by marriage and having a household, saying, “That’s absolutely something I want.”

He stated he did not anticipate to speak publicly a lot about his personal life although. “Some things you want just for you, or just for my family and my friends.”

The Boston native additionally continues his involvement with the civic engagement website A Starting Point, which he co-founded in 2020.

As Evans charts the following a part of his life and profession, he totally expects People’s honor will probably be a milestone.

“It’s something that as I become old and saggy I can look back on and say ‘I remember then…'” Evans stated. “I’m lucky to be in the discussion in any capacity.”