@mainstreetusay Yep! Two people on tumblr who attended the premiere said they heard people booing when EVC’s name was announced/she took the stage. There were at least two other people who said they never heard that, but they also acknowledged that things were so loud and the area large enough that they wouldn’t have heard boos if they were far enough away.
Like, not only did Sharon Carter never get a fair shake by the Russos (they admitted in a 2014 interview while promoting TWS that they’d cut an entire storyline for Sharon due to time, hence why the movie was only “introducing” the character), one of the deleted scenes made the DVD and we know from leaked storyboards that she originally had much more to do. But they cut it. Not only that, but they never let her win a fight. And they show her going into fights at a complete 90-degree angle (other cameras get to face the camera). Sharon is ALWAYS filmed at an angle or behind something or someone. They cut her screentime down to 7 ½ minutes - 2 ½ in Winter Soldier, where she was originally said to be the lead (SJ hadn’t even signed on yet, and there was only a rumor that SJ would APPEAR in the film, but the Russos talked later of casting her and expanding the role because they wanted to meet SJ and are huge fans of hers. So.), to 5 minutes in Civil War, where, again, she was supposed to have a much larger role. On Jimmy Kimmel, when he asked who among the cast (Team Iron Man, at least), got the whole script, Emily was the only one who nodded. So Markus and McFeely might have liked and trusted her enough, or she originally had a larger role and had to understand Sharon’s motivations since her character was on both sides to an extent, or she didn’t realize what she got wasn’t the whole script (and with 5 mins of screentime, they didn’t just give her those 5-10 pages and let her think that was the full movie. No one can believe that).
Emily also talked in interviews about how Marvel had her on a diet for Civil War, which was hard because she was such a foodie. Maybe she was just joking? But what an odd tidbit to throw out. (I can’t find the link for this one, sorry!)
During the Chelsea Handler interview, Chris Evans talked about how the first step to getting women equal pay in Hollywood was advocating for them to have equal screentime. Emily VanCamp, with her five minutes of time in Civil War, was sitting right beside him. He never publicly advocated for her. The nicest thing he said about her during press for Civil War was her name in response to “Who’s most likely to cry at a Disney movie?” He seemed happy that Cap got to make out with someone again, and talked about how the movie was planting the seeds of Sharon and Steve and how they had time to develop the relationship more (awwwwwwwwwwkward now), but never actually said anything nice about Sharon herself or Emily.
She was so supportive of her coworkers, even when she didn’t have scenes with them. She was Paul Bettany was hilarious (they did press together, and he apparently told a lot of funny stories on the plane), and when an interviewer tried to get her to trash talk Tom Holland, she started complimenting him instead.
The bit that really gets me, though, is that they had Emily VanCamp at the 10-year-anniversary photoshoot. At that point in time, they had either already filmed the Steggy scene or were about to. The scene that makes Steve seem like he was just using Sharon as a literal replacement for her great-aunt even though they look and sound nothing alike. The scene that likely erases Sharon from the MCU, just like HA wanted, because even though Sharon doesn’t know what Steve did, the audience does. And they had her there, smiling, just glad to be included, and all along they knew what they were going to do. Chris knew, Hayley knew, the Russos knew, Markus & McFeely knew, and they had her there to, what. Humiliate her? As one last hurrah? Why have her there if they knew they were going to write her out? It was cruel.
Basically, Emily VanCamp/Sharon Carter were undermined or outright insulted by coworkers and directors. She was hung out to dry, and fandom was happy to let it happen. She was treated horribly by so many people, and judging by the fan & media response, nearly everyone is STILL happy to let the treatment continue, or feel she somehow earned it.
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