CAPTAIN AMERICA Star Chris Evans Visits Young Fan Battling Cancer

CAPTAIN AMERICA Star Chris Evans Visits Young Fan Battling Cancer

Captain America star Chris Evans, showed his true colors earlier this week when he visited a young fan battling a brain tumor in Boston. Hit the jump to check it out!

By Khanlark - Dec 29, 2014 08:12 PM EST
Source: Comicbook.com
While Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Push) may be a "superhero" on the big screen, it turns out the actor is a true hero in real life. The star of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, visited Kenny Botting, a young fan who is currantly battling a brain tumor. Kenny, who is only nine years old, is a huge fan of the Star Spangled man, and his friends and family know about it.

Kenny, who underwent brain surgery back in September, has been staying at Christopher's Haven, a home away from home for kids battling the enemy known as cancer. Evans, who is known for visiting and comforting fans who are challenging this tough disease, stop by and signed autographs, took photos, and awarded Kenny some gifts.

On the meeting, Evans had to say "It's their strength, that gives me strength," You can check out the full story below, thanks to CBS.




After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier. Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is produced by Kevin Feige, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

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