What kind of superhero is Steve Rogers after he's transformed into Captain America?
"He's not a superhero in the true sense of the word. He can't fly or see through walls. But if you imagine the world's fastest, strongest Olympian athletes, and add 25, 30 percent, that's Steve Rogers. He's not bulletproof, but he can do a lot of things we can't do. He's basically an everyman, and because he's not a superman, I think audiences will be able to relate to it more."
What went into figuring out how to film the pre-transformation scenes?
"There wasn't time to do that Cast Away thing where we'd stop production for a while and let Chris lose 50 pounds or whatever it was that Tom Hanks lost."
So instead you used CG to put Chris’s head on another, smaller actor’s body.
"Even that actor wasn’t as skinny as we wanted Steve to be, so in many cases we had to skinny him up [further]. And we had to skinny up Chris’s head. We did things to his hair to make him look weak. We made his skin look pale, like someone you wouldn't want in your army."
Word is that Chris was hesitant to take this role. Why do you think that was?
"I know it took him a while to decide to do the part, and I think it's because he'd been in another superhero movie [the Fantastic Four films] that didn't go as well."
In at least a few foreign countries, the film will be simply called “The First Avenger,” with no mention in the title of Captain America. How do you feel about that?
"If it was up to me, I'd just call it 'Captain America.' But there's a lot of reasons why I'm not running a studio. It's not about, 'Somebody's gonna be turned off because America is in the title.' I think it's familiarity with the character itself. They're dropping it in countries where people don't know the Captain America character. But it's still the same movie, no matter what you call it."
This interview was with Steve Daly at Parade.com
Link:
http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/2011/05/captain-america-first-avenger.html?