'Agent Carter' Star Hayley Atwell: 'It Does Feel Like a Small Triumph for Women on Television' — variety.com

When we first met Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) in “Captain America: The First Avenger,” audiences fell for her just as hard as Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) did — and no wonder; unlike most love interests in superhero films, Peggy was no damsel in distress. Here was a woman who had ascended to a position of authority in the male-dominated Strategic Scientific Reserve during the height of World War II, regularly went toe-to-toe with Nazis and HYDRA agents without so much as smudging her killer red lipstick, and, in Atwell’s own wry words, did “everything Captain America can do, but backwards and in high heels.”

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