Scarlett Johansson‘s latest Marvel movie, Black Widow, just hit theaters this week, but Scarlett revealed she has “no plans to return as Natasha.”
Scarlett Johansson’s latest Marvel movie just premiered. Her titled film is finally out, after years in the making. The timeline fits Black Widow after Civil War, but *spoiler alert* Natasha died in Avengers: Endgame.
So where does this fit on Scarlett’s plans?
In a new interview with Fatherly, Scarlett Johansson revealed she has “no plans to return as Natasha,” her iconic leading character in the MCU. Her first appearance was in Iron Man 2, and the character has grown so much.
In a latest interview, Scarlett slammed the over-sexualization of her character in the first film, but agreed it’s changed so much since.
She told Fatherly that the new movie differed a lot: “The process of making Black Widow, it was very different. It’s the first film that I’ve produced and my experience, really from conception to what you guys are all seeing now — was absolutely fulfilling and creatively fulfilling, and also personally, really just very fulfilling. Everything was possible because strangely, you would think that the timeline would be sort of limiting in a way, because you were kind of going backwards, but because of Natasha’s ultimate fate, it actually made it in some ways daunting, but it felt limitless in some ways.
Because it didn’t have to lead us anywhere. It wasn’t like we had to tie up a bunch of loose ends, or we were introducing another kind of storyline or multi-verse or anything like that. We could really make it very much about her person and her own personal journey.”
But even so, when it comes to her future in the MCU, this might be it for Scarlett. She said: “I have no plans to return as Natasha. I feel really satisfied with this film. It feels like a great way to go out for this chapter of my Marvel identity. I would love to be able to continue to collaborate with Marvel in other ways because I think there’s just an incredible wealth of stories there. Re-imagining this genre is something that I find very interesting. I think there’s a lot of opportunities to tell these stories in different ways than audiences have come to expect.”
