Chris Evans says he may have given Jimmy Fallon his first acting job

• Chris Evans said on "The Tonight Show" that he may have given Jimmy Fallon his first acting role in 1998.
• Evans said he was a casting office intern when Fallon auditioned for his debut role in "Spin City."

Chris Evans suggested that he may be responsible for Jimmy Fallon getting his first acting role in 1998.

On Monday, Evans appeared on Fallon's talk show "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to discuss his latest Apple TV+ movie "Ghosted."

During the interview, Fallon began to thank the former Marvel star for his debut role in "Spin City."

Evans said that is "where I interned in the casting office around the same time," adding: "Did I give you your first job?"

Fallon then replied: "I feel like I owe my whole career to you. I remember I was nervous. I went in. I read for this role as a photographer number one or something. And I walked in and I didn't do anything that special so I'm like, 'I'm not gonna get this.'"

Fallon added, gesturing to Evans: "You did it."

Evans went on to explain how he ended up working in the casting office for "Spin City."

"It was the summer of my junior, going into senior year. I knew I wanted to act, so I moved to the city. I got a job interning at a casting office just to meet agents," Evans recalled.

"It's a humbling experience, though. You come into your job on a Monday after an audition goes out... So you show up at your desk. You got a stack of envelopes from all these agents in town. And your boss comes in, and I don't want to get anybody in trouble... My old boss would pluck out two or three envelopes and I threw the rest in the trash. She just chucked them. And you were just like, 'Wow. This industry is brutal.'"

Evans joked that he saw Fallon's headshot in the pile and thought, "This guy's got something."

Evans also said that he sat in on auditions by Jesse Eisenberg and Jim Gaffigan during the internship.

In 2016, Evans shared on Twitter the letter he sent to casting directors to apply for the internship.

In a followup tweet, he wrote: "And the resume/headshot I sent along with it is BEYOND humiliating. Truly comical. Luckily it did somehow lead to an internship. #dumbluck"

"Ghosted," starring Evans and Ana de Armas, premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday.