--- title: Chris Evans on Ex Jenny Slate "My Favorite Human" Interview description: Although their relationship ended, Chris Evans and Jenny Slate have remained friends and share genuine respect and admiration for one other. canonical: https://time.com/4718209/chris-evans-jenny-slate-friendly-relationship/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-30T13:55:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:24.386Z og:title: Chris Evans Has Only Good Things to Say About His Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Slate og:description: 'She's my favorite human' og:url: https://time.com/4718209/chris-evans-jenny-slate-friendly-relationship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a758c1e99ac31c6/6988c096dcd4a14a1707511c/chris-evans-jenny-slate-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 89th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chris Evans Has Only Good Things to Say About His Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Slate twitter:description: 'She's my favorite human' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a758c1e99ac31c6/6988c096dcd4a14a1707511c/chris-evans-jenny-slate-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chris Evans on Why His Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Slate Is His 'Favorite Human' > Sponsored content. 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Although their romantic [relationship ended ](http://people.com/celebrity/chris-evans-and-jenny-slate-break-up-after-less-than-a-year-of-dating/)earlier this year, the _Gifted_ costars have remained friends and share genuine respect and admiration for one other. “She’s my favorite human,” Evans tells PEOPLE of Slate. “She’s the best. I’ve never ever ever met someone in my life who has a mastery of the English language the way she does. She’ll give you one sentence and there’s no fat to it. You’re like, ‘You just chose such an unbelievable collection of words that beautifully articulate what you say.’ “It’s like an art form talking with her, because the visuals associated with her expression are just so colorful,” he continues. “She’s so vulnerable, so honest, so interested in other people more than herself, she’s incredibly compassionate, there’s just nothing to not love about her.” Evans and Slate, both 35, met while filming their new movie, [_Gifted_](http://people.com/pets/exclusive-chris-evans-wants-to-wish-you-a-happy-love-your-pet-day/), a drama about a man who struggles with how to parent his niece, a child prodigy. Slate, who plays the young prodigy’s teacher and Evans’s love interest in the film, recently [expressed similar sentiments,](http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/jenny-slate-gifted-chris-evans-breakup.html) praising the _Captain America_ star’s kindness, joyful energy and “beautiful, big, strong emotions. Evans has always been very careful and private about certain details he shares about his personal life, but he understands the public’s interest. “I chose to be an actor, you can’t be an actor and then be like, “I’m pissed people want to know about me!’ ” he says. “To some degree I welcome it, because I’ve always found that for the most part, in interviews, being anything less than candid feels wrong. To some degree it feels right to share certain things. So, I’m not too sour if all the sudden it feels like there’s a large influx in curiosity.” He adds: “It’s not a bad thing. And you know what, if the things you’re doing and the things you’re surrounding yourself with are quality people and they are beautiful experiences, there’s no shame in sharing.” _Gifted_ opens in select theaters April 7 and expands nationwide April 21. _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/celebrity/chris-evans-jenny-slate-gifted/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4718209/chris-evans-jenny-slate-friendly-relationship/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4718209/chris-evans-jenny-slate-friendly-relationship/"},"headline":"Chris Evans on Why His Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Slate Is His 'Favorite Human'","datePublished":"2017-03-30T13:55:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:24.386Z","description":"\"She's my favorite human\"","url":"https://time.com/4718209/chris-evans-jenny-slate-friendly-relationship/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a758c1e99ac31c6/6988c096dcd4a14a1707511c/chris-evans-jenny-slate-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kara Warner / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a758c1e99ac31c6/6988c096dcd4a14a1707511c/chris-evans-jenny-slate-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"89th Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals","caption":"Actor Chris Evans arrives at the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California.","creditText":"Dan MacMedan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4718209/chris-evans-jenny-slate-friendly-relationship/","name":"Chris Evans on Why His Ex-Girlfriend Jenny Slate Is His 'Favorite Human'"}}]}] ```