Chris Evans: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

3. Hayden "Harvard Hottie" - The Nanny Diaries (2007)

Chris Evans The Nanny Diaries
The Weinstein Company

Here's a movie that you know isn't going to be very good from the title alone, and sadly it also contains one of Chris Evans' least notable turns. He plays a love interest to Scarlett Johansson's sort-of nanny, Annie, who accidentally gets the job when somebody mishears her name (really). She nicknames Evans' character, who lives upstairs, the "Harvard Hottie," for reasons that are somewhat self-explanatory.

Evans pretty much serves as eye candy here, and - like the film - is about as dull and uninspired as generic rom-com love interests get. He's so well-groomed that he almost looks fake, as though he's been cut right out of a glossy magazine.

The only remotely interesting thing about his being here is that it gives you the chance to see Captain America and Black Widow interacting pre-Avengers.

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