Succession’s Jeremy Strong says he was very nearly cast as Captain America. Well, Captain America’s pre-serum scrawny body anyway.
The ideas was that it would be Chris Evans’ head audiences saw, digitally plopped onto Strong’s body. “They told me there was a top-secret film about Captain America,” Strong told The Times U.K.
of the for the 2011 origin film. “They needed someone to play Captain America’s young body, before he turns into a superhero.
They said they needed a transformational actor and would use CGI to put the actual actor’s face and voice over my own.” Not exactly a career-making turn, but to Strong it was tempting. “I was broke,” he told the paper, “I needed money.
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