One of my favorite things about Chris Evans is that he runs like an absolute dumbass.
“He’s very fast and he also has a very unique run. I mean, it’s almost a dancer’s run. And when we tried to double him for running, there was nobody who could run like him. They just didn’t have the same dynamics or the way he moves, and he had to end up doing most of his own running.”
– Joe Johnston, director of ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’
Hi also adding that he’s probably so hard to double in running shots because he fucking *bounces* all over the place. Which makes the fact that he’s a fast runner that much more surprising because that bouncing gait is a colossal waste of energy. I can’t tell you how long it took the coaches to train that out of my brother when he was in track (I keep talking about him and not me because he was actually athletic and I was just a very good fraud).
Also women often run with that bounce because we often get trained to walk on the front soles of our feet through dance, gymnastics, wearing heels, etc.
So what they really needed was a dancer or a woman to be Evans’s running double.
I have no problem talking to people, but when it happens in the face of 30 people, for some reason I have this really awful insecurity response, where you just start dripping sweat. Just literally turning into a sauna.