Scarlett Johansson Looks Back On 10 Years Of Marvels 'Black Widow' | Entertainment Weekly

All of us had a moment where we were like, oh, this is going to work. This is totally going to work. Look, I'm not letting you go in there alone. You want to help? I'll keep the car running. Okay. The hallway fight in Iron Man 2, kind of the first choreographed stunt I'd ever done. We established a lot of the now, kind of iconic widow moves and poses. So there's, like, the whole, like, leg wrap thing. You know, obviously the actual widow pose, which gets referenced in the standalone film a lot. A lot of the moves are really spider-like. They're balletic, and they sort of pay homage to Natasha's past. I'm still doing a lot of those moves today. You brought the monster. So, Banner, that's your play. Loki, Natasha in Avengers, it gives us some information about Natasha's past, but it also, we really get to see kind of her wearing many masks in that scene, and it's just a scene I think that really embodies Joss Whedon and his creative style, his creative writing style, and how it's got this great dramatic intensity, and then it's just super playful. And to me, it's such a Joss Whedon moment, as much as it is a Natasha Romanoff moment. Who do you want me to be? How about a friend? Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers. When you see Nat and Steve in the car in Winter Soldier, and they're talking to each other, it's really like a result of ten years of knowing somebody, and being able to have kind of intimacy with them that I think you get from just spending a lot of time with somebody and knowing their kind of soft underbelly. We had a lot of fun doing it. I think you're being hard on yourself. Here I was, and that was your job. What are you doing? If I had to be vulnerable with any one of those actors, Mark is such a wonderful scene partner to do that with because he's so open himself. And ironic, because I was also really pregnant at the time when we were shooting it. So, yeah, I guess Mark really had to suspend his disbelief there because it was, you know, just below here was this giant pregnant belly. What do we do, Cap? We fight. This is going to end well. In Civil War, there's obviously this huge fight that happens on the tarmac. You have all these stunt guys with big helmets and full body gear, and then there's my character who doesn't have any of that stuff. So I was like, it'll be me with the stunt team, which is how it normally is. And I remember both sides running at each other, full speed charging at each other, and you knew that the universe would be forever changed after that. We're still friends, right? Depends on how hard you hit me. Nat and Clint, you know that they're going to be friends for life, and it's not the first time that they punch each other in the face, so... That's what friends are for. She'll die alone, as will you. She's not alone. So Danai and I basically are losing in Infinity War, and Scarlet Witch comes in and saves the day, and Okoye has this great moment where she's like, where was that? Why couldn't you have been here earlier? Where'd she come from? Yeah, we were just this random other unit that was fighting in a ditch for weeks. When Lizzie came along, we were like, and where have you been? You get to do the awesome hero pose. We've been eating dirt for three weeks. But also very fun. In Endgame, we actually shot the Soul Stone sacrifice several different ways. Originally, we were being pursued by an army of Dementor-type of creatures that I was thinking kids were going to... Parents will never forget how these creatures look. They're so, so terrifying. And so we were being threatened by those guys. But what the Russo brothers kept kind of coming up against was like, gosh, you know, the movie is so full of all these huge explosive moments. They just missed some sort of intimacy between these two characters. So we ended up reshooting it and really making it just with Nat and Clint and just having it be a very unexpected kind of moment that just left the audience with the... Just wanted to leave them with the weight of that loss and the shock of it. It really felt very moving and bittersweet. All the fight sequences in this Black Widow standalone come from a deep emotional place. All of the feelings that you associate with your family, the disappointment that comes with expectation, and the sense of trust or broken trust or abandonment or whatever, all that stuff. It should feel very familiar, which is really fun. It's like when you see prize fighters who have come together to have a second go at it, and you know that there's just all that built-up tension in a good kind of way that the audience is like, oh, yes, this is so exciting because there's an emotional journey that got them there. Yeah, it kills. It totally kills. Something that I will always remember is that scene in Avengers where we kind of assemble in the wreckage of New York. It seemed crazy. There's a Nordic god, and there's the Tony Stark character, like billionaire playboy, and then there's a mutant scientist who's got an anger management problem. There's all these crazy backstories that we have. We're like, how is this? This sounds like it's either going to be people are going to love it or they're going to think it's going to be a mess. I remember all of us assembling in that circle and looking around, and I think all of us had a moment where we were like, oh, this is going to work.