'All My Good Movies, Nobody Sees,' This Chris Evans Interview Keeps Going Viral

True story: A few years ago I saw a screenshot of some viral Chris Evans quotes going around on Twitter (which is what that website was called at that time), which I read, not having any idea where or when they were from.

The quote getting the most attention was when Evans was talking about the Danny Boyle film, Sunshine. Evans said, "All my good movies, nobody sees. Everybody goes and sees Fantastic Four, but nobody sees Sunshine. I'd have a different career if people saw that."

I remember reading that then thinking, "He's certainly right about Sunshine, great movie." Then being envious that another interviewer got a quote out of him like that.

It was a couple hours later that a random account on Twitter that I did not follow, nor did it follow me, tweeted at me that this was my interview. I was pretty sure this was wrong. In 2012 I interviewed Evans at the Toronto International Film Festival when I was working at HuffPost. He was promoting The Iceman and, at the time, that interview got a lot of attention. People still bring that one up to me to this day, so I'm still pretty familiar with it and these particular quotes didn't ring a bell.

What I had forgotten, the year before, I also interviewed Evans – only for Moviefone (both Moviefone and HuffPost were owned by AOL at the time, where I worked) and the Moviefone interview didn't make much of a splash when it was published on Sept 19, 2011. Then it was unceremoniously scrubbed from the internet. So, honestly, I just kind of forgot it ever existed. Until someone found the old quotes and made them go viral. Then someone was nice enough to remind me that I had actually conducted this interview. And now, like clockwork, every year or so I see them going viral again, with no attribution. And, frankly, I at least want to make an attempt, here, to reclaim my work. (I do realize this is futile.)

I have to admit, I loved interviewing Chris Evans both times. Not surprisingly, after these two (maybe a little too honest) interviews, they stopped letting me talk to him. This was a very interesting time in Evans career. In the 2011 Moviefone interview he was promoting a small film called Puncture (which I liked quite a bit) and Captain America: First Avenger had just been released. He seemed like an actor who was worried some of the roles he was most proud of were being ignored. Now, time has certainly been kind to Danny Boyle's Sunshine – a movie that is now beloved – but, at the time, as Evans points out, not many people saw it.

By the time we spoke a second time, a year later for Huffpost, The Avengers had come out and he was just in a different space professionally – yet still liked being a fun rapscallion in interviews, which I leaned into. And then, again, they stopped letting me talk to him. (Which, yes, I guess I do understand.)

Actually, when we started that second interview, the first thing I did was bring up the first earlier interview and this is how things started:

I interviewed you for Puncture once. You were nice.
Oh, good. Well, I became a dick, so get ready.