In the event you had been to inform a center school-aged Chris Evans that he would at some point be named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive, “he’d be pumped!” the star tells the journal on this week’s cowl story. “This might in all probability be the street to the cool desk which I used to be not at.”
Current-day Evans, 41, remains to be adjusting to the brand new title of PEOPLE’s 2022 Sexiest Man Alive and having to speak about it, however he is aware of this information will delight not less than one particular person: “My mother will probably be so completely happy,” he says. “She’s pleased with all the things I do however that is one thing she will actually brag about.”
It is a sunny fall day on a farm outdoors of Atlanta, Ga. the place Evans is sitting in entrance of the fireside in a quaint farmhouse. Though he seems to have absolutely understood this explicit project, wearing a comfy knit sweater and denims, the Boston native would in all probability quite leap into mentioned hearth than speak about being horny.
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“This complete factor is hard to be interviewed about,” he says with amusing. “It appears like a bizarre type of humble bragging.”
The Grey Man star can be bracing for some good-natured ribbing from his shut associates.
“Actually it will simply be some extent of bullying,” he jokes. “It is ripe for harassment.”
Regardless, his mother Lisa is delighted by the information. “I’m not shocked in any respect,” she tells PEOPLE. “Our household will probably be beside themselves.”
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Finest recognized for enjoying the altruistic, self-sacrificing superhero Captain America in Marvel’s multi-billion-dollar Avengers franchise, and as a faithful, photo-happy canine dad to Dodger, his boxer combine, on social media, Evans is much extra snug speaking about his profession, which has been on hearth for the final decade. This yr alone, he starred in Pixar’s Lightyear, Netflix’s Grey Man and filmed three new motion pictures, together with 2023’s Ghosted for AppleTV+ which he’s additionally producing, and likewise nonetheless co-runs A Beginning Level, the civic engagement platform he launched in 2020.
Now in his 40s, Evans is making an attempt to prioritize a wholesome work-life steadiness and spending as a lot time as attainable at house and along with his household in Boston.
“On the subject of searching for out the folks I play it is extra of a problem of the place the film shoots,” he says. “I am too outdated to be dwelling out of a suitcase for six months and I’ve settled right into a nicer part the place I am simply completely happy being at house.”
He is additionally pondering much more about his future outdoors of performing — one that features marriage and fatherhood.
“That is completely one thing I would like,” he says. Simply do not anticipate him to speak a lot about that when it occurs: “Some belongings you need only for you, or simply for my household and my associates.”
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Twenty-two years into his profession, Evans admits he is able to decelerate a bit.
“Essentially the most pleasurable side of my profession proper now could be feeling safe sufficient to take my foot off the gasoline,” he says. “I really feel like I’ve a bit extra freedom to take time away from the trade and nonetheless discover tasks that can fulfill my inventive urge for food after I return.”
And given on a regular basis he is been spending in and round his hometown, what does he suppose is the sexiest factor about Boston?
“A lot historical past there! I like the accent. To me, the accent is house,” he says. “I like the climate. The seasons, the sports activities groups. However the sexiest factor about Boston… perhaps our universities. We have a variety of good colleges. Let’s give training a plug, that is rattling horny.”
Simply do not ask him to make use of the phrase “horny” in a sentence about himself. And though he is not fairly snug with it but, years from now he’ll look again on the title fondly.
“It is one thing that as I turn into outdated and saggy I can look again on and say ‘I keep in mind then…’ ” he says. “I am fortunate to be within the dialogue in any capability.”
