Any blogger covering the Avengers: Age of Ultron press tour will admit to hoping for a few interesting interviews. I certainly didn’t expect anything of this messy magnitude. Chris Evans tried to lay low and be the good-time guy. He avoided trade magazine covers, GQ, and such. The loosey-goosy act backfired. He’s now seen as a drunkface with a flair for laughing hysterically while bro-ing out. He backed into a corner with a decent apology and much grovelling in the aftermath.

Evans has switched his focus back to business, sort of. He’s preparing to march right into Cap 3: Civil War. Evans also reveals that the two-part Avengers: Infinity War will shoot for nine months starting in fall 2016. So he’ll have some time off, but the Marvel grind is steady. In a talk with Entertainment Weekly, Evans distracts himself by contemplating Steve Rogers’ (possible) eternal virginity:

Cap is the nobelest Avenger: “He does have a healthy understanding of what it feels like to be powerless, to be the victim. But he also has a healthy understanding of what it is to be a soldier. I think anytime you meet anyone that’s been in the military, when you fight alongside someone they become a brother. I think in a weird way he looks at his Avengers as his family at this point. … It’s hard to explore a guy who doesn’t want to make waves with his own personal conflict. He’s always trying to help the greater good.”

Will Cap ever think about himself? “That’s why it’s kind of exciting to look forward to Cap 3. I think we really scratched the surface on something great and I think there’s just so much to explore. Not just with the evolution of myself and [Anthony] Mackie’s character, but the reconnection with Bucky, and ultimately a relationship with a woman. … It’s funny when you think about it — he’s probably a virgin. [Laughs.] He’s probably a virgin! I don’t know when it would’ve happened.”

What about those USO tours? “He was on tour. That’s true. Maybe one of those [dancing] girls blew his mind. [Laughs] He’s probably just a good guy. He was probably holding out for Peggy Carter and he’s a little more old-fashioned in that sense. These are a lot of things that I think are giant conflicts, but they’re also very personal conflicts. He’s a very human guy. That’s why I like him.”

[From EW.com]

I do think Steve Rogers is still a virgin. Steve Rogers was hung up on Peggy Carter and called her “my best girl” decades after he disappeared into the ice. She moved on, married some other dude, and grew old. Still, Cap only wanted Peggy. He couldn’t even properly kiss Black Widow in Cap 2 because of Peggy (and maybe Bucky too). Steve’s virtue is definitely intact. And I can’t imagine Steve’s version of Cap would ever do the deed without delivering a patriotic speech during the heat of the moment.

FYI: Jeremy Renner elaborated (beyond his annoyed non-apology) upon the “slut and wh*re” debacle. Speaking with Uproxx, Jeremy said, “anything can be taken out of context and especially if you get more loose-tongued as you’re on three hours’ sleep, three days running. I don’t know, whatever. I focus on what’s important in life for me.” Last time, Jeremy used one tedious press hour as an excuse. Now he’s writing off his casual sexism due to lack of sleep.

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