Chris Evans on his The Gray Man character: ‘I’ve aggressively gone 180 degrees from Steve Rogers’

Hollywood star Chris Evans says his character Llyod Hansen

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The Gray Man is the antithesis of Steve Rogers/Captain America

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the fan-favourite superhero he played in multiple Marvel movies.

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For the upcoming Netflix actioner

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Evans has reunited with Anthony and Joe Russo

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with whom he worked on two Captain America films as well as two ‘Avengers’ movies.

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Also starring Ryan Gosling, the movie is based on Mark Greaney’s 2009 novel

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the same name and revolves around freelance assassin and former CIA operative Court Gentry.

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It follows Gentry (Gosling) as he is hunted across the world by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former member of Gentry’s CIA team.

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