Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans are getting backlash for an interview they did while promoting their film Avengers: Age of Ultron, during which they jokingly criticized Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow character.
When a Digital Spy interviewer asked what they thought about fans pairing Black Widow with both of their characters in the sequel, Jenner deadpanned, “She’s a slut.” Evans laughed hysterically and chimed in, "I was going to say something along that line ... a complete whore."
USA Today reports they’ve received some criticism for those remarks, as well as Renner adding in a negative connotation with Black Widow’s prosthetic leg.
He added, “she has a prosthetic leg anyway.”
Some of the responses have been fans of the Marvel series calling the actors “sexist” or “misogynistic” and demanding they apologize. Reps for neither Renner or Evans have responded.
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