This post was supposed to be a simple one about our favorite Dorito. Starting with Chris Evans’ visit to China last Friday. He played in a celebrity golf tournament. There are revealing GIFs of Chris taking a swing and staring off across the green. The ball was sitting right in front of him. So much second-hand embarrassment, but it was charming. Not everyone can be Bill Murray when it comes to golf.

Things got complicated with yesterday’s Marvel Event (I’ll discuss in a moment), but I intended to segue into a Buzzfeed interview from the Avengers: Age of Ultron set. The journo spoke with Evans and Chris Hemsworth about their friendship and tenure with Marvel. A few words from Evans:

Evans on Hemsworth: “We’re buddies. We’ve been on a little bit of a ride doing these movies. You make really good friendships. It sounds cliche to say: ‘We all get along so well!’ We really get along phenomenally well. It’s like summer camp. It’s the kind of comfort that can only come with years of experience of what it’s like embodying a Marvel superhero. In the beginning, you’re just so grateful. You’re very timid. You’re lucky you got invited to the barbecue, you just don’t want to get in the way. Now, you feel a little more at home, and it feels a little more like a collaboration that you contribute to. If anything’s changed, it’s just my feeling of ‘welcomeness.’ Is that a word, welcomeness? We’re going to make it a word, f— it.”

His “retirement” announcement: “Which I never said, and if you read the interview, you’ll see that,” says Evans. It is obviously something of an exasperating topic for him. “It’s not where I’m playing a sport where I’m just too old to do it. You can act until you’re dead. It was really one of those frustrating things that you give in an interview, and you can quote me, irresponsible journalism — everywhere I went, every interview was like, ‘So you’re quitting?!’ Didn’t say ‘quitting! I said that I wanted to take a break!”

The “infamous” Marvel contract: “Halfway through!”” he says, throwing up his arms in his trailer with an enormous grin. “I mean, I’m going to miss these when they’re done. I really will. This has been a lot of fun, and they’re only getting more fun. Especially because there’s a trust in Marvel that you’re going to make something good. It would really be lousy to be stuck in a contract knowing that you’re making sh-t. And I just don’t feel that way. It’s really a blessing that this kind of fell in my lap. Sometimes you don’t really feel deserving of it. But I’ll take it.”

[From Buzzfeed]

It’s an interesting interview, and I only scratched the surface. Hemsworth expressed concern as to whether Marvel could revisit the Thor-Loki dynamic and still keep it fresh. As Kaiser mentions, there will be Hiddles in Marvel’s Phase III.

To tie up the “retirement” topic: Chris takes issue with the entire media for “irresponsible journalism” because Variety used the word “retire“ in its Evans cover profile. To be fair, Evans didn’t say that word. He mentioned “a break” (like Ross and Rachel) and said, “I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.” This wishy-washy talk followed weeks of Evans tap dancing over how his heart wasn’t in the Cap role before he clarfied and overcompensated. All I’m saying is this: The stage was set. Own your flakiness, dude.

Anyway. The Marvel Event happened & a few other things. Bulletpoints, please:

* Marvel announced seven films and release dates, including confirmation of Captain America 3: Civil War (co-starring Robert Downey Jr.). At some point, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will converge with either an Avengers or Winter Soldier movie. Yay, more Sebastian Stan and Chris Pratt!

* Kaiser already discussed how Black Panther (played by Chadwick Boseman) gets his own movie in 2017. He will appear in the third Cap movie, Civil War, as an intro. And Marvel will release a female superhero movie in 2018. The lucky role is Captain Marvel (not to be confused with DC’s Captain Marvel, who has been renamed as “Shazam”). Who should play Captain Marvel? My pick is Natalie Dormer. The bad news? Black Widow got the shaft again.

* Mark Ruffalo did an Ultron set interview. He revealed how Scarlet Witch’s scream can turn the Avengers against each other. That explains Tony Stark’s silly Hulkbuster costume. Ruffalo also revealed that there’s a little romance for the Hulk in this movie. Yeeeah. Get ready for that, Black Widow.

* Finally! Last night’s Agents of Shield episode revealed a blues-soaked minute of extra Age of Ultron footage, which features a hammer-lifting party. This leads to Ultron’s entrance and and part of the trailer that we discussed last week. We still don’t know what’s going on with Andy Serkis.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes photo of RDJ with Evans & Boseman at the Marvel Event.

Photos courtesy of Robert Downey Jr. on Twitter & Fame/Flynet