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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Chris Evans

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Chris Evans is best known for his role as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but his latest projects are a change of pace for the Hollywood star. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the actor for a virtual conversation about his role in the new Apple TV series Defending Jacob and his step off the screen into public policy.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with a brand new episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:07.1

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:10.7

As you know, we've been getting you some of our classic conversations here and hopefully

0:14.9

you've been enjoying those and mixing in as often as we can, new episodes over Zoom

0:21.3

in the strange virtual world of communication we're all living in.

0:24.7

We've got one of those for you today with Captain America himself.

0:28.6

Chris Evans.

0:30.1

Chris has a new series on Apple TV called Defending Jacob.

0:33.5

It is excellent.

0:35.6

Moving from his big budget superhero career in the Avengers, literally the highest grossing

0:40.6

movie of all time and then moving into this cool series where he plays a prosecutor whose

0:45.4

son is charged with murder.

0:47.7

We'll let him explain the plot and how it plays out.

0:51.0

We should also point out we got together back in May.

0:54.2

This originally was going to run around then on Sunday today as a Zoom interview, but

1:00.6

we held it because it happened right before George Floyd was killed and we were busy covering

1:07.0

other news.

1:08.0

So if we don't touch on everything that's happened since that terrible day in Minneapolis,

1:13.1

that's why.

1:14.1

Also, Chris is very outspoken on politics, has been for a long time and he's got a new initiative

1:20.6

a website called a starting point that gets into public policy.

1:25.6

It just launched this week.

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