Succession Jeremy Strong says he almost played Captain America. Well, Captain America’s pre-serum skeletal body anyway. The idea was that it would be Chris Evans‘ the main audience saw, digitally deposited on Strong’s body.

“They told me there was a top secret Captain America movie,” Strong told The Times UK of the 2011 origin film. Captain America, before he became a superhero They said they needed a transformational actor and would use CGI to put the real actor’s face and voice over mine.

It wasn’t exactly a career turning point, but for Strong, it was tempting.

“I was broke,” he said. says the newspaper“I needed the money. I considered it. But this is my LA story. It was never going to happen for me here. I felt like what I had to offer n had no value… And the next day I went back to New York and did a play about an Afghan veteran in a wheelchair during the blackout of 2003.”

Even Chris Evans, who grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts with Strong, was unaware of the near miss. “Oh no!” he replied upon hearing the news. It seems Evans has been a lifelong fan, ever since seeing Strong play a Hobbit as a child, a performance he remembered as “phenomenal”.