titles from those interviews:

She can probably challenge me in ways that other people can’t, and that’s always attractive.
I’m glad they want that to happen, because it’s the girl behind glasses trying to win the superhero, and that’s just sort of sweet.
I was actually just on set telling Stephen that you really feel there’s a lot of chemistry and heat between the two of them.
It would be nice for it to happen, but it’s also nice having the tension, because everyone loves the tension, the tightrope.