article_snippet.sent: Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans were forced to apologize on Thursday for calling co-star Scarlett Johansson's character in the blockbuster movie a 'slut,' saying it was just a tasteless joke.
article_snippet.sent: Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans made the offending comments in a TV interview alongside fellow superhero star Evans, who plays Captain America.
article_snippet.sent: An interviewer asked Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans what Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans thought about Scarlett Johansson's's character, Black Widow, opting not to get together romantically with either of Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans. '
article_snippet.sent: Jeremy Renner told the Digital Spy interviewer, triggering huge guffaws from Evans, who added: 'I was going to say something along that line...
article_snippet.sent: Social media, perhaps inevitably, went ballistic, and on Thursday Jeremy Renner's publicist issued an apology on his behalf, saying the actor was simply exhausted from the slog of promoting the new movie. '
article_snippet.sent: Evans' representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but in a statement to Entertainment Weekly his said: 'Evans' representatives answered in a very juvenile and offensive way that rightfully angered some fans. '