Chris Evans has called it quits with Jenny Slate — and Captain America.

In an interview with the New York Times, Evans, 36, didn’t expound on his breakup with the “Saturday Night Live” alum but confirmed it happened “recently.” Slate, 35, and Evans first split in February 2017 (before reconciling last fall). “I think it’s probably best. I’d love to be his friend one day, but we threw down pretty hard. No regrets, though. Ever,” she said at the time.

Evans, however, had plenty to say about hanging up his iconic shield after the fourth “Avengers” installment.

“You want to get off the train before they push you off,” he explained.

The actor is embracing roles in smaller films, like “Gifted,” in which he co-starred with Slate in 2017, as well as making his Broadway debut as a creepy cop in the Second Stage Theater’s “Lobby Hero” alongside Michael Cera, opening next week.

“I used to have thoughts of wanting to climb to the top of something, or wanting to be somebody,” he said of abandoning blockbusters for art. “But when you get the thing that you think you want and then you wake up and realize that you still have pockets of sadness, and that your struggle will reinvent itself, you stop chasing after those things and it’s liberating, because you realize that right here, right now, is exactly all I need.”

The “Snowpiercer” star took a year off after “Captain America: Civil War” in 2016, during which he indulged in the simple domestic delights of remodeling his Boston home and bonding with his nieces and nephews. He plans to do just one film a year for the rest of his career.

“When I think about the times that I’m happiest, it’s not on a movie set,” he said. “I’ve stopped thinking about my trajectory, or my oeuvre, or whatever pretentious word you want to use. I’m just following whatever I feel creatively hungry for … I’m not afraid to take my foot off the gas. If someone said tomorrow, ‘You’re done, you can’t do anything else,’ I’d be OK.”