“The First Avenger: Captain America” director Joe Johnston spoke about casting Steve Rogers earlier this month, saying that a casting decision was “weeks away.” Well, weeks have passed, February is almost over and it appears the role has been narrowed down to five.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the five front-runners for the role of Captain America are Chace Crawford (”Gossip Girl”), John Krasinski (”The Office”), Scott Porter (”Friday Night Lights”), Mike Vogel (”Cloverfield”) and Michael Cassidy (”Smallville”).

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Tommy (Scott Porter) is a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot, living in the high risk, high reward world. When he meets ambitious, young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth (Alexis Bledel), she falls hard for him and thinks he’s a good guy to share her life with. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy’s sensitive and handsome co-worker Daniel (Bryan Greenberg), and Beth starts to realize that maybe Tommy isn’t the good guy she thought he was.

At the press day for The Good Guy, actor Scott Porter talked about creating this multi-layered character, playing a terrorist on the SyFy drama Caprica, and the difference between working on smaller, low-budget films like this one and major studios flicks, like he did on Speed Racer.

Q: How did you create this character, so that he wasn’t someone that audiences would just dismiss?

Scott: The issue with Tommy was figuring out what drives him, and you see that at the end. He has a problem. He’s just an egomaniac and has an issue that he can’t seem to get over. Everybody has got an addiction or a problem and he’s got his, and it’s holding up this persona that he has of himself. And, the problem that arose while playing him was, “How should he be with his relationship with Beth?”

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To watch Friday Night Lights is to behold a geyser bursting with acting talent. The series about a Texan town obsessed with its high school football team is a rotating door of previously unknown actors building their cases for lasting careers in Hollywood. After three seasons as the pious Jason Street—the star quarterback for the Dillon Panthers who is paralyzed in pilot episode—Scott Porter showed the kind of restraint and elicited the kind of pathos unfathomable for an actor whose only prior acting experience came in musicals. But since FNL’s writers treat their characters with dignity by sending them off properly when their arc is complete, Porter is now out on his own, fighting for roles in big movies and lending his services to little ones. The Good Guy is a little one, a glossy New York fairytale that sees Porter as a slick and ambitious broker who romances Alexis Bledel, and may or may not be the movie’s titular character. Here the actor talks about his new film, his hopes to one don superhero tights, and why Speed Racer didn’t quite click.

I just finished watching you beat-box on Youtube. You’re really good.
Yeah. I might not have been in the most sober state of mind. I beat-boxed professionally for seven years. That’s where I came from.

Wow. I had no idea.
Yeah, I was in a couple of different A capella groups and did everything from winning Star Search to opening for N’Sync on their first national tour.

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Friday Night Lights’ Scott Porter will be a guest star on the second episode of “Caprica” which airs Friday nights at 10pm EST on the SciFi Channel.

Caprica is a prequel to the beloved series Battlestar Gallactica. So for all you Street fans, tune in on Friday January 29th!