{"id":125812,"date":"2025-11-09T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/125812\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:05:08","slug":"13-stars-who-auditioned-for-captain-america-including-the-final-4-choices-before-chris-evans-won-the-role-captain-america-chris-evans-eg-marvel-movies-slideshow-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/125812\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Stars Who Auditioned for Captain America, Including the Final 4 Choices, Before Chris Evans Won the Role | Captain America, Chris Evans, EG, Marvel, Movies, Slideshow | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain America remains one of the most iconic roles in the MCU, with the superhero having been originated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/chris-evans\/\" title=\"Chris Evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris made his debut as the character back in 2011\u2032s Captain America: The First Avenger, but ahead of the making of the film, there was a big audition process to find the right star to tackle the famed role.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re looking back and revealing which stars were linked to play Cap, including the alleged final four actors who were in contention at the time before Chris signed on.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look inside to see which 13 stars auditioned for the role, who got to screen test for Captain America, and who was in the final four for the role\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/08\/13-stars-who-auditioned-for-captain-america-including-the-final-4-choices-before-chris-evans-won-the-role\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain America remains one of the most iconic roles in the MCU, with the superhero having been originated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-125812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}