While promoting Avengers: Age of Ultron last month, Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner made some really off-color comments about Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow character, calling the character a “slut” and “whore.” Both have apologized already, Renner spoke a bit more about the situation on Conan last night.
In an interview with Digital Spy, Renner and Evans were asked about rumors that Black Widow would end up with either Renner’s Hawkeye or Evans’ Captain America characters. “She’s a slut,” Renner said. Evans, who broke into laughter, added, “I was going to say something along that line... a complete whore.”
“It was a joke, off-color, whatever,” Renner told Conan O’Brien. “Yeah, I’m unapologetic about a lot of things... but I got in a lot of Internet trouble. I guess that’s a thing you can get in.”
Renner again stressed that he was just asked about Black Widow being linked to all these over members of the team, so she said that it “sounds like she’s a slut.”
“Mind you, we’re talking about a fictional character and fictional behavior, but, Conan, if you slept with four of the six Avengers - no matter how much fun you had - you’d be a slut,” Renner said.
After the initial controversy surrounding the comments, Renner issued a statement that read, “I am sorry that this tasteless joke about a fictional character offended anyone. It was not meant to be serious in any way. Just poking fun during an exhausting and tedious press tour.”
Here’s Renner on Conan:
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