Chris Evans: actor, superhero, and — as of very recently — political platform-builder.
The Marvel star announced last week on Twitter that astartingpoint.com (a project he's been working on for a while) is now live. The website features short videos of U.S. politicians speaking on a variety of issues, and comes with a mission statement to "create a bipartisan channel of communication and connectivity between Americans and their elected officials with the goal of creating a more informed electorate."
Evans has been promoting the site on social media and in interviews ever since, and on Tuesday night he sat down for a chat with Seth Meyers on Late Night, explaining that getting politicians to trust him was no easy feat in the beginning.
"Participation was the uphill battle, for sure," says Evans in the clip. "I saw this as a very symbiotic mechanism. Everybody wins here. You get to connect to the voters, voters learn from the elected officials. But obviously we're trying to cultivate a new relationship, we have nothing to show, we just have our words, so there was obviously apprehension."
Still, in the end — and with a little Captain America charm to help him — he got there.
You can head over to astartingpoint.com to see who's involved so far.
