While shooting "Bridesmaids" in Los Angeles, Link also attended the first round of auditions held by Marvel Studios for the leading role in "Captain America."
The first round of auditions was relatively straightforward, focusing on physical attributes such as height, build, eye color, and hair color to match as closely as possible to the real Steve Rogers, aka Captain America.
Link was two centimeters shorter than Captain America's stats, had an excellent physique, matching eye color, but while Captain America had dark brown hair, his was black.
Additionally, in the Marvel comics, Captain America is of Irish immigrant descent, and while Link knew that Link Baker was a mix of British, Italian, and Latin heritage, he wasn't sure if there was any Irish in his ancestry.
On this front, he scored slightly lower than fellow auditionees Chris Evans, Channing Tatum, and Sam Worthington.
Surprisingly, African American Will Smith also made it into the second round.