How Did They Make Captain America Skinny

The skinny steve effect was made up of three different approaches.

Lola employed three main techniques to make the all american evans appear weak and spindly a combination of digitally shrinking or scaling down evans body doubles that s where deeny came in. Despite his small frame steve still had the heart and morals that would later make him the obvious choice to become captain america. They used a variety of techniques. They cast this incredibly skinny guy to be skinny steve rogers then decided.

The first avenger however in that the standard vfx challenges on this film were the opposite of what we re used to. According to the captain america exhibit in the mcu steve was only 5 4 and weighed 95 pounds. The first would be a body double british actor leander deeny the second would be digital head replacement a la the social. Erskine s super soldier serum was running through his veins steve was suddenly 6 2 and 240 pounds of pure muscle and showcased evans physique.

It s pretty interesting how they did it. Not so for captain america. But thanks to the magic of moviemaking evans played skinny steve too.