After Avengers: Endgame, Scarlett Johansson hopes to get green light for Black Widow spin-off
- As Marvel’s Avengers reach their grand finale, Johansson’s character may just be getting started, though she can’t officially confirm anything yet
- She talks about developing her role as Black Widow, bringing up her daughter and her career trajectory
As Avengers: Endgame closes in on its finale, Black Widow is just getting started.
Scarlett Johansson, who has played the Russian spy since launching the character in Iron Man 2 in 2010, laughs whenever a question is posed on the long-awaited Black Widow spin-off, which many have speculated will go into production this year.
The 34-year-old actress starts and stops a couple of times before finally blurting out, “I don’t even think I can say a single thing! And that makes my job easier and harder at the same time.”
Wait, Johansson cannot even say how she feels about the idea of Black Widow finally getting her own film? Or if she is ramping up workouts to prepare? “No, I cannot!” she says, fully under the scrutiny of a Disney representative sitting on the floor behind her. “Really.”
Johansson, along with Robert Downey Jnr (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor), is one of the O.G. Avengers, having arrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe way before the new kids like Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) came around. “It’s been a very transformative decade,” says Johansson. “When my character started in Iron Man 2, she was like a souped-up secretary with a skill set on the side.”