Scarlett Johansson inBlack Widow(2021).Photo: Film Frame/Marvel Studios 2020
Scarlett Johanssonhas given her final bow asBlack Widowand is reflecting on what she found most surprising about the making of her long-awaited solo feature.
While speaking withEntertainment Weeklyin promotion of the film, the 36-year-old actress chatted alongside her fellow cast membersDavid Harbour,Rachel WeiszandFlorence Pugh, as well as directorCate Shortland, about moments they each found exciting during the movie-making process.
“The safe house, imagining the time that Clint Barton and Natasha spent together in these small spaces and what actually happened in Budapest, just uncovering all of that stuff was very, very interesting,” she added. “Surprising.”
Jay Maidment/©Marvel Studios 2020.
Johansson’s solo MCU debut inBlack Widowraked in $80 million in its opening weekend in North America, setting a new pandemic box office record. After it was delayed from its original May 2020 opening date, Disney announced the decision to releaseBlack Widowin theaters and on its streaming platform at the same time.
With an additional $78 million in international box office sales and more than $60 million in Disney+ Premier Access rentals, the movie’s opening has grossed over $215 million, according toCNBC.
“It is really, really exciting,” Johansson previously told PEOPLE of finally seeing the movie come out. “I’ve been eagerly, anxiously awaiting the release, just wanting to share this movie with everyone.”
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Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh inBlack Widow.Jay Maidment/©Marvel Studios 2020.
“It’s obviously very exciting and it has all that Marvel magic to it,” she added. “But it also is very unique for Marvel. It just has its own flavor. And I think people will really enjoy that. It has definitely has got the nostalgic things that people will expect from any Marvel movie, but it also has its own rhythm. I’m excited to share it with people. I’m really proud of it.”
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“For me, I did really like in the script the moment when he begins his journey, he gets the doll of himself that Natasha has hidden the earpiece in,” the actor said. “It’s such an amazing thing for a character, and it’s such a profound metaphor in a weird way too — like his eldest daughter, the one he messed up the most, sends this message in this older version of himself, and she’s the one who guides him back to redemption, in a sense. I just thought that was such a beautifully weird thing to send this old doll of him.”
Pugh, 25, meanwhile, said her favorite memory revolved around working with Shortland, 52, and how the director kept referring to a car chase scene in the movie as “epic.”
“When I finally read the script, I was like, ‘bloody Nora, it is epic. It’s going on and on and on,'” she recalled with a laugh. “I just kept on in my head, whenever we were doing this epic car chase, I kept on hearing Kate over coffee one random December morning being like, ‘And it’s epic.'”
And as for Weisz, 51? She had two particular moments that stood out to her — the costume fittings for her own Widow suit, as well as finally getting to work with Shortland after “a while” of trying to do so.
Black Widowis now playing in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access.
source: people.com
