Hayley Atwell on Captain America's New Romance With Sharon Carter: "You Can't Tap That!"

I don't know about you, but I wasn't crazy about the romance between Chris Evans' Steve Rogers and Emily VanCamp's Sharon Carter in Captain America: Civil War. It felt as if the movie wanted us to think there was the culmination of a bunch of build-up between them, but the kiss they shared felt a little unearned to me. Maybe it's just that Evans and VanCamp don't have nearly the same chemistry that he had with Hayley Atwell in Captain America: The First Avenger, and the former Peggy Carter herself offered her opinion about Cap's romance with Sharon at the Dallas Comic Con Fan Expo (via IGN):

“Well, first of all she’d be turning over in her grave,” Atwell said, with a grin. “She’d be like ‘no.’ And she’d inject herself with the blue serum and become a super villain. She’d break out of her coffin and ground [Sharon]. She’d ground her. Then she’d kick Steve’s ass as well.”

“I just feel that, you know — I wouldn’t want to date my great aunt’s guy. It just feels like it crosses an incestuous boundary. And Peggy just died. That’s even more disrespectful, right? It’s like, ‘don’t touch that.’ You can’t tap that!”

"[Peggy would] want the best for [Sharon] and she'd want her dating a good guy. And now with this whole 'Hail Hydra" business, I don't know if Steve's good enough for her," she said, referring to the new controversial Cap arc from the comics. "So on all levels, it's just a big fat no."

I'm sure there are plenty of fans who feel the same way. Hopefully future movies will take more time to flesh out that relationship a little more if the filmmakers insist on keeping it going. But considering how much the new Avengers movies (the ones that won't be called Infinity War Part 1 and 2) have to juggle, I'd be OK if Steve and Sharon's romance was cut entirely.