AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Star Jeremy Renner Clarifies His Black Widow Joke

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Star Jeremy Renner Clarifies His Black Widow Joke

"I'm unapologetic about a lot of things" - Last night on Conan, Avengers: Age Of Ultron star Jeremy Renner, who portrays Hawkeye, took a minute to elaborate on the Black Widow joke he and co-star Chris Evans came under fire for last month on the press tour. Come check it out!

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By RohanPatel - May 05, 2015 07:05 AM EST
Source: Conan

Last month, near the tail-end of the massive Avengers: Age Of Ultron press tour, stars Chris Evans (Snowpiercer) & Jeremy Renner (Kill The Messenger) found themselves in a bit of hot water after a joke they made about fellow Avenger, the Black Widow, went viral. After the comments were blown way out of proportion, both actors issued quick apologies, with Renner's statement receiving a bit of initial flak, and the issue was seemingly forgotten as it got caught up in the hype surrounding the release of the Joss Whedon-directed film. Last night on Conan, Renner revisited the whole situation and clarified a bit on the initial joke.

Check out his comments in the video below:


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Avengers: Age of Ultron features:
Director: Joss Whedon
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Hulk
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill
James Spader as Ultron
Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff
Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff
Paul Bettany as Vision
Don Cheadle as Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes/War Machine
Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig
Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter
Idris Elba as Heimdall
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/The Falcon
Thomas Kretschmann as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker
Claudia Kim as Dr. Cho
Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue
Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton
Julie Delpy as Madame B

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blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 5/5/2015, 7:14 AM
Renner stole A2. I want to see a Hawkeye solo movie now.
Supes17
Supes17 - 5/5/2015, 7:15 AM
Damn it seems like anything you say nowadays is taken the wrong way and seen as sexist, homophobic, racist, or controversial in some other way.
Pansy ass people man. It's a joke. Get over it
Shootzilla
Shootzilla - 5/5/2015, 7:16 AM
Glad he is unapologetic, the fact that we still live in a day and age were some people expect an apology over a mere joke is sickening.
Earthbound
Earthbound - 5/5/2015, 7:16 AM
Yeah, that whole controversy was the dumbest thing to get irritated and offended at. Like have these people trying to be PC are still nothing but internet trolls who probably make equally or more offensive jokes in other places.
Earthbound
Earthbound - 5/5/2015, 7:18 AM
@Supers17

Everything you just said has offended women, gays, and blacks. Please apologize ;)

@Shootzilla

Right? It's not like he's going around accusing all women of being sluts, he's talking about a fictional character who, is drawn pretty slutty by men who are into that, so I don't think he's too far off point lol
PAF
PAF - 5/5/2015, 7:18 AM
Yea a great joke. Let's show girls that if you're friends with too many boys you're a slut. But I'm sleep tho.
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 5/5/2015, 7:18 AM
Exactly!!! Blown way out of proportion. Nuff said.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 5/5/2015, 7:20 AM
I'm still pissed that I fell asleep during the monologue on Conan last night. Wanted to see Renner. That's a good clip, though.

@blackandyellow

I agree. I wanna see him and Wanda team up. They were both standouts in AoU.
1pickleduck
1pickleduck - 5/5/2015, 7:21 AM
I think she got denied by Cap tho and settled for Banner.
ogrodafloresta
ogrodafloresta - 5/5/2015, 7:21 AM
This Twitter people need an actual demanding job, that doesn't allow them to have all this free time to talk shaite about everything and everyone.
Nivekian
Nivekian - 5/5/2015, 7:21 AM
It was boneheaded, especially given that even Joss Whedon is under fire for making her a musical chairs romantic interest. Renner is lucky they didn't kill his character off, and then he does something like this on the press tour. Have a good time being "retired" on that farm with your family Hawkeye.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 5/5/2015, 7:22 AM
As comic book fans, we know something that the general audience doesn't know. Black Widow is kind of a slut. I mean, really...

She's no She-Hulk, though. That bitch gets around.
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 5/5/2015, 7:22 AM
"Renner stole A2. I want to see a Hawkeye solo movie now."

Yup. Black Widow/Hawkeye team-up movie, please.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 5/5/2015, 7:22 AM
**SPOLIER ALERT***

I was a bit disappointed when QS took the bullets for Hawkeye… I thought it was going to happen the opposite way around:( But this movie Hawkeye was a good scale of a human at peek condition trying to keep up with super humans.
marvelstudios
marvelstudios - 5/5/2015, 7:23 AM
So many fkn pansies these days. Renner called a fictional character a slut and he cops it from all these people. I'm glad Renner is unapologetic. People need to toughen the [frick] up.
PAF
PAF - 5/5/2015, 7:24 AM
@Nivekian

Exactly. Feige praising Odin he let Whedon keep the farm. Hawkeye is gonna stay there now. Lol.
1pickleduck
1pickleduck - 5/5/2015, 7:26 AM
ya anyways, if it was one man on a team with mostly women, and he slept with them he'd be a man-whore or a dog, but when its black widow on a team with mostly men and she sleeps with them, she's a slut. Only THEN its insulting. Little double standard at all?! COME ON!
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 5/5/2015, 7:26 AM
@Nivekian

Whedon made Natasha a "musical chair romantic interest"? How so? She flirted with Stark and Cap, wore an arrow necklace as a tribute to her friend Hawkeye, and had a "relationship" of sorts with Banner. How does that make her a "musical chair romantic interest"? They never hinted that she had any relationship with Stark of Cap (although she kissed Cap under cover and proceeded to laugh at his technique), and they alluded to a history of sorts with Hawkeye.

If anything, the Russos made her much more sexualized in TWS with the bikini story, kissing Cap, and talking about Cap's lack of practice. In the Avengers she was shown as a cold-blooded spy, only showing affection for Hawkeye, who saved her life instead of killing her.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/5/2015, 7:29 AM
<<<<<

You can't call a fictional character a hoe!
Supes17
Supes17 - 5/5/2015, 7:30 AM
@MPambassador
Goddammit!!
Wait, religious groups could find that insulting.
Gosh darn it, I never win! Haha
MutantWarrior
MutantWarrior - 5/5/2015, 7:31 AM
If this joke would had been about Chris Evans or Mark Ruffalo no one would had given a [frick]. But since it's about a woman, people lose their shit. And by the way, like he said, they are just fictional character, he did not insulted Scarlett...
ralfinader
ralfinader - 5/5/2015, 7:32 AM
"It's over?"

"Thats what I do!"
RextheKing
RextheKing - 5/5/2015, 7:32 AM
Good job Jeremy, yah told it how it is.
SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 5/5/2015, 7:33 AM
"Whedon made Natasha a "musical chair romantic interest"? How so? She flirted with Stark and Cap, wore an arrow necklace as a tribute to her friend Hawkeye, and had a "relationship" of sorts with Banner. How does that make her a "musical chair romantic interest"? They never hinted that she had any relationship with Stark of Cap (although she kissed Cap under cover and proceeded to laugh at his technique), and they alluded to a history of sorts with Hawkeye."

Freaking thank you. Banner is literally the first time that she's had a romantic interest whatsoever in these movies. People jumped on the Black Widow/Hawkeye bandwagon without even bothering to think it through all that much. And in TWS, she was literally trying to set Cap up with other women throughout the entire movie. People are funny sometimes.
Baka
Baka - 5/5/2015, 7:34 AM
@Jeight
Id say these vids mostly sum it up even though I dont fully agree with him on everything

SauronsBANE
SauronsBANE - 5/5/2015, 7:35 AM
"If this joke would had been about Chris Evans or Mark Ruffalo no one would had given a [frick]. But since it's about a woman, people lose their shit."

No one would ever make this joke about Evans or Ruffalo though. Hell, Tony Stark is the perfect example of a man-whore and nobody ever brings that up. It's only ever joked about when it involves a woman. Not that I'm personally offended by Renner's joke, but that's the double standard.
Supes17
Supes17 - 5/5/2015, 7:35 AM
Feminists and Feminazis are two different groups
Baka
Baka - 5/5/2015, 7:36 AM
@SauronsBANE @MercwithMouth
Agreed.
Pasto
Pasto - 5/5/2015, 7:44 AM
I still think the Hulk and Black Widow thing came way out of left field. In the film Bruce is just as dumfounded as to why Widow wants to form a relationship with him as the people watching the movie are. Nothing up till the release of this movie has alluded to or shown a spark between either characters. The only characters Widow has shown to have a slight spark with is between Captain America and Hawkeye, and we can see that Hawkeye has a wife and kids, and Captain America has....well....being Captain America. Whedon painted himself into a creative corner when it came to who Widow would settle down with.
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 5/5/2015, 7:45 AM
@Gusto

How dare you! McGee is a one-man man!

@soforizo

You disagree?
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