Even though Evans and Slate are both from Massachusetts and were raised just a half-hour apart, their paths did not meet until September 2015, when they came face to face at a “chemical test” for the movie Gifted. Forewarning: They passed and got roles as romantic leads.
During filming, she and Evans did become friends and would frequently hang together at weekly game nights.
However, once Jenny and her director husband Dean Fleischer-Camp divorced, things took a romantic turn when Chris admitted he had emotions for Jenny.
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After less than a year of dating, the first split-up occurred in February 2017. In her piece for Vulture, Jenny discussed their breakup and revealed that Chris’s celebrity had a role in their decision to call it quits.
Slate was coping with her breakup with Fleischer-Camp as well:
“Chris is a very, very famous person. For him to go to a restaurant is different than for me to go. I sit in my window and I say ‘Hi’ to people on the street. I have more freedom because I’m not Captain America,” she said, adding that the attention became too much for her. “This is what I needed to do to feel normal,” she explained. “To be alone.”
He was said to be dating Lily James, the actress after the two of them were seen together twice. James sneakily responded, “No comment” when asked if they were a couple.
Alba Baptista, an actress from Warrior Nun, is said to be his current girlfriend.