Mark Ruffalo has some explaining to do.
The 54-year-old ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’ star apparently forgot to warn her ‘Avengers’ co-star Chris Evans that her new Marvel Disney+ show spilled a tidbit about her virginity secret. Captain America character.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for the first episode of “She-Hulk.”
“She-Hulk” — which premiered Thursday — follows the life of Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany), the cousin of Ruffalo Hulk/Bruce Banner, as a lawyer and as the titular superhero.
A frequent joke on the show sees Walters tell his friends that Captain America/Steve Rogers died a virgin, a theory that has long floated around in Marvel fandom.
At the end credits of the first episode, everything had been revealed. The scene showed Walters drunk calling Banner, saying that Captain America didn’t deserve to die a virgin.
But an eye-rolling banner had had enough of his rant and told him the truth. “Steve Rogers is not a virgin. He lost his virginity to a girl in 1943 on the USO tour,” Banner said.
But it turns out that Walters was just manipulating his cousin into telling her the real gossip about Cap, and she wasn’t actually drunk at all.
Ruffalo recently joked onstage, telling Entertainment Weekly, “I laughed my ass off. I’m like, ‘Does anyone need to talk to Captain America about this?’ I didn’t. I was afraid he’d get cut. Too late now, mate. The cat is out of the bag.
Evans, 41, even tweeted his reaction to Thursday’s reveal, simply penning a series of laughing-crying, zip-lip emojis.
The question of Cap’s virginity was mentioned last year by writer Stephen McFeely of ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ in 2011 when he suggested that Rogers had in fact lost his V card while on tour. USO.
Ruffalo also talked about how “She-Hulk” pushes the boundaries of superhero shows by showing the day-to-day minutia of heroes’ lives.
“It’s all that’s human that we can’t get to [usually see]said the “Spotlight” actor. “What’s great about this show is that we get to see them as just human beings and what their lives are and what those stories are.”
“It’s really different that way, and it’s funny because we see this single girl in her thirties, and when [head writer] Jessica Gao said, “I love how exciting the show is,” I was like, “I’m going to use it.”
