Kevin Feige talks Pepper Potts in "Iron Man 3"

I for one haven't had any interest in "Iron Man 3" up until this point, I wasn't the biggest fan of the first two but I love Marvel so I've seen them. It would be stupid to say the film wouldn't be as good without the addition of Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts.

Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige has been speaking about how important the character is to the film;

"The love triangle in this movie is really between Tony, Pepper and the suits. Tony, Pepper and his obsession with those suits, and the obsession with technology. And, it’s sort of unique for a big superhero summer blockbuster franchise to have that kind of layers.

"Yes, there’s a bad guy. Yes, the stakes are very, very high--the President of the United States is in danger. Air Force One is attacked. There are big stakes to this movie. But the real stakes are, is Tony going to be able to set aside the obsession to spend all day, every day in that workshop, tinkering with the suits in order to focus on, as he says in the trailer, the one thing that matters most - Pepper. And that actually is what the entire movie’s about."

The rumour of Pepper Potts wearing her own suit in the films has been around for as long as the films have been out, even though Feige doesn't confirm the rumour he certainly does add credence to the rumour;

"I will tell you this. In this movie [Iron Man 3] we play with the convention of the damsel in distress. We are bored by the damsel in distress. But, sometimes we need our hero to be desperate enough in fighting for something other than just his own life. So, there is fun to be had with "Is Pepper in danger or is Pepper the savior?" over the course of this movie.

"In terms of where we go with future movies, we’ll see. In the comic books she does get a taste for the suit and becomes her own hero named Rescue, who doesn’t necessarily battle other people, but is on missions to help people and to save people. Will we do that down the line with Gwyneth Paltrow? Who knows. But her being in the suit is something we have been playing with since Iron Man 2, where we did some designs and it didn’t end up fitting in that movie. But the little taste you saw here [in an Iron Man 3 clip] is something that we’re certainly interested in."

It's not just me is it? That does sound like we might be seeing Rescue in this film? Or at least some point in one of the upcoming films.