Chris Evans tells his proposal story with the energy of a theatre kid

At the Materialists premiere the other night where Pedro Pascal was a no-show so Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans held up a cutout of his face instead and periodically kissed and posed with it on the carpet. Likely a scheduling issue, it’s not like Pedro would skip this event if he could help it but, just for fun, do we think Pedro’s absence is somehow a clue about what happens in the story, like who she ends up with? This is part of the intrigue of the film, and this is how they’re setting it up in all the trailers: Lucy has two choices, two extremely different choices. Which man does she end up with… or no man at all?

Anyway, one of the moments from the premiere that’s gone viral involves Chris Evans telling The Knot about how he proposed to his wife Alba Baptista who are coming up on their second wedding anniversary. Maybe because his Fandango interview that I linked to last week is fresh in my mind, or maybe it’s all the Tonys coverage, but it’s the theatre kid in Chris.

During that Fandango interview with Dakota and Pedro, at one point (9 minute mark) they talk about how he’s always tap dancing on set. Textbook theatre behaviour right there – it’s either dancing or singing or both or talking about dancing and singing. And we’ve always known this about him anyway, he loves theatre, he’s always talking about theatre.

The way he tells the proposal story then is with that same energy – we’re not listening to a heartthrob movie star replaying his proposal, we’re hearing it from a theatre kid who has practised the sharing of the anecdote as much as he says he practised asking his wife to marry him, LOL. And I’m not mad at it. I would rather someone have no chill when they’re proposing than be too cool about it. Especially given the online hate that Chris and Alba have gotten from certain corners of the internet who can’t be normal about them. Chris is out here making sure that everyone knows he was nerdy about how he asked his wife to marry him, and in that sense, under those layers, it’s cute.