Is nerdsplain a word yet? Cobie Smulders has been out promoting the newest Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, and she's been preparing by asking questions of her Avengers-fanatic husband, Taran Killam, she told Seth Meyers on Thursday's Late Night. "He knows so much more about the comic book world than I do," she said, so before meeting the press, she asked him to brief her on this Ultron guy.
Meyers says that he, too, was obsessed with comic books as a kid, and "all we ever dreamed is that at one point in our life a beautiful woman would say, 'Tell me about Ultron.'" His enthusiasm is infectious, but he somehow turned the discussion of filming The Avengers to Smulders' topless cover on Women's Health. "Ah, here we go," she said. Meyers turned it into a pretty good joke, but it's pretty clear she's ready for this part of the press tour to end. —Peter Weber
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