“I, sort of, had to shake it up a little bit because I just couldn’t seem to, I just didn’t want to work on stuff that I knew how to do and knew I could do it and it was like, what is this? I remember thinking at the time, maybe I need a different job in this industry that would, sort of, be more fulfilling ’cause there seemed nowhere to go,” Johansson continued. I had been working since I was eight years old and certainly that was never a goal of mine.” But it was really difficult for me to try to figure out how to get out of being an ingénue or the other woman, because it was never anything that I had intended. It was kind of crafted for me by probably a bunch of dudes in the industry. Even though it wasn’t part of my own narrative. She went on to say, “I guess at the time seemed okay to everyone. Even enviable-looking Scarlett Johansson couldn’t disguise her fear at having to don a skintight catsuit for her Iron Man 2 role as the Russian spy Black Widow. Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) as Black Widow in Marvel Studios’ BLACK WIDOW. Johansson plays Russian superspy Natasha Romanoff (aka the Black Widow), who is hired as Starks. By Jami Philbrick Published Aug 12, 2009. You know what I mean? Because my thinking was different.” Marvel Studios has premiered a new photo of Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2 on Yahoo Movies. Scarlett Johansson Talks 'Iron Man 2' Scarlett Johansson made her first appearance at Comic-Con to talk about the highly anticipated 'Iron Man 2,' her role as the Black Widow, working with Marvel Studios and other Marvel characters that she considered playing.
What does he say?”Īfter being prompted by Collider’s Ashley Robinson, she continued, “‘I want some.’ Yeah and at one point calls her a piece of meat and maybe at that time that actually felt like a compliment.
And Tony even refers to her as something like that at one point. She continued, “Really talked about like she’s a piece of something, like a possession or a thing or whatever - like a piece of ass, really. Johansson then went on to discuss the “hyper-sexualization” of Black Widow in Iron Man 2, “All of that is related to that move away from the kind of hyper-sexualization of this character and, I mean, you look back at Iron Man 2 and while it was really fun and had a lot of great moments in it, the character is so sexualized, you know?” Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) in Marvel Studios’ BLACK WIDOW, in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access.