Jeremy Renner Isn’t Really Sorry About His Black Widow ‘Joke’

Jeremy Renner recently got in trouble for comments he made during a press tour for the new Avengers movie. When discussing the character Black Widow’s romantic history with several members of the Avengers, Renner called her a “slut.”

With people calling him a misogynist, Renner apologized the next day in a statement: “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.”

The story might have ended there, but Renner was on Conan and basically said that he wasn’t actually sorry, telling Conan O'Brien, "It was a joke. Off-color or whatever. Yeah, I’m unapologetic about a lot of things but, yeah, I got in a lot of internet trouble because that’s a thing now, you can get in…I was asked a question, so, 'Black Widow’s been linked to Hawkeye, Iron Man, Bruce Banner, and Captain America. What do you think about that?’ So I said, 'Sounds like she’s a slut.’ Mind you, I was talking about a fictional character and fictional behavior…”

Renner then told O'Brien, “Conan, if you slept with six Avengers, no matter how much fun you had, you’d be a slut. I’d be a slut.”