Chris Evans has a video on his phone of the first day he met Paul Rudd.
It was on the set of the 2016 movie “Avengers: Civil War.” Evans was reprising his role as Captain America in the Marvel blockbuster; for Rudd, it was his introduction to audience as Ant-Man (also known as Scott Lang).That day, as Rudd was trying to acclimate to a Marvel movie set, Evans had an unusual request.
Evans wanted Rudd to shimmy to a song from “Grease,” as part of a “yearbook video” that the “Avengers” actors were making for the cast.Evans recalled what happened next to Rudd in a video chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors issue.“There was a real kind of nervousness about Scott Lang, and I just really kind of played into that because that was part of what I was feeling anyway,” Rudd started out telling Evans.
“I’d look around and think,
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