Fresh disconnected nan occurrence of “Materialists,” Chris Evans is letting his chap Marvel stalwart Sebastian Stan cognize that he’s fresh to return to nan stage, which Stan apparently has been telling Evans he wants to do for years. Evans, though, doubts that nan “Thunderbolts*” character is serious.

“He tin opportunity that each day, but erstwhile I really telephone him connected it — I’m like, ‘Let’s do it. Which one?’ He’s like, ‘Well, you know, I’m a small busy.’ I’m like, ‘Seb, extremity utilizing maine successful press. Because I’m fresh to get connected shape pinch you,'” Evans told Entertainment Weekly. “But, you know, he’s a engaged guy. He’s an Oscar nominee. He’s sewage worldly going on.”

But Evans is insistent that he is “dying to get connected stage,” specifically pinch Stan, who has performed connected Broadway successful “Picnic” (2013) and “Talk Radio (2007).

“I emotion Seb. I emotion moving pinch him,” Evans continued. “Theater’s specified a monolithic commitment. You’re pinch nan personification each time each day. So I would… termination to do it.”

This is not nan first clip Evans has heaped praise connected his “Captain America” co-star. He talked to Vanity Fair earlier this year astir Stan’s bold profession choices, which included a 2024 that saw him successful specified divers films arsenic “The Apprentice” and “A Different Man” — both of which led to captious acclaim and a bevy of awards attention.

“Sebastian has ever been really fearless. You tin spot that successful his choices. He takes large swings. When that Trump movie was kicking around, I retrieve thinking, ‘I wonderment who is going to take this job? It’s conscionable sewage truthful galore strings attached to it.’ And I was so unsurprised erstwhile I heard it was Sebastian,” Evans said.

And though nan prima is known for his surface roles, nan endurance tests of nan MCU whitethorn travel successful useful should he ever grace nan Broadway stage.

“They are these big, elephantine movies. There’s a batch of cooks successful nan kitchen. But nan empirical grounds is in: They are not easy to make. If it was easier, location would beryllium a batch much bully ones,” Evans said astatine Emerald City Comic Con successful 2024.

Stan is returning to nan MCU for “Avengers: Doomsday,” which is presently successful accumulation with a merchandise day group for December 18, 2026. Evans’ “Materialists” is successful theaters now.