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Scarlett Johansson isn’t the type of glamorous star you expect to see at Comic Con, although these days you may expect to see any kind of glamorous star there. She’s in Iron Man 2, so she joined her cast and crew for the panel to introduce her character of Black Widow to the public. Then we got a chance to find out a bit more about the latest Marvel superheroine.
Crave Online: What was that experience like for you downstairs on the Comic Con panel?
Scarlett Johansson: It was incredible. I’ve never experienced anything like that before. I have never experienced anything like that before, two weeks after filming has wrapped. It’s exciting to be a part of something that kind of has this built in fan base that’s got this electricity around it. It’s exciting.
Crave Online: Is it true that you dyed your hair for your first meeting with Jon Favreau?
Scarlett Johansson: Not for my first meeting with Jon, I had actually met with Jon and Kevin [Feige] about a year before pre-production started and we just talked about some of the super heroines in the Marvel Universe. One of them is Black Widow and I think they were kind of toying with the idea of putting the character into the film, and how they would work it in, and all that kind of thing. Then when I had met Jon the second time I did have red hair. Part of that was me wanting to experiment with my hair color and the other part of that was me kind of hoping that Jon would like the fact that I had experimented.
Crave Online: How did you like doing the super hero thing?
Scarlett Johansson: I have to say that I really was able to work with such and incredible and supportive group of people. That helped of course with any nerves I may have had. It was a lot of work. It’s a lot of work because you want to buy it. You want to buy that the character is able to kick some major ass.
Crave Online: How much did you do to prepare for all of that physical stuff?
Scarlett Johansson: To kick some major butt? It was many, many, hours, days, and months of stunt training, and strength training. But it’s fun because I had a goal. The goal was the Lycra cat suit.
Crave Online: Was there anything surprising that you didn’t expect?
Scarlett Johansson: I mean, everything was surprising to me when I was making this movie. I was such a fan of the first one so I was kind of geeked out by the movie to begin with. I think 80 percent of the crew came back for the second time. I was really surprised to find that this movie that was kind of seemingly larger than life was such a small, sort of familial feeling on set. Even though we were making this huge movie we had Kevin Feige there everyday. I don’t know, it just felt like the whole studio was behind the movie in a really kind of supportive and nurturing way.
Crave Online: Is this a character that might be spun off and have her own film? Is that something that has been talked about at all?
Scarlett Johansson: I hope so. I mean I think it all depends on how the fans react to the character, which I hope people like the character of course. I love the character. You will have to ask Kevin Feige that, but I hope she does turn up. If not in her own film then in future series, and perhaps the next film.
Crave Online: There is a lot of super hero stuff going on in your family right now. Is your place just filled with comic books? Did you and Ryan research together?
Scarlett Johansson: I have quite a few stacks of comic books. We’re in completely different universes over there but its kind of something that I’m certainly delving into for the first time. There is quite a stack.
Crave Online: Were you familiar with the character or did you have to do a lot of research to study for that part?
Scarlett Johansson: I was familiar with the character as far as I had researched different super heroines. But I didn’t know that much about the characters background. Only that she was kind of the oldest of the super heroines and has this incredible fan base. She’s had many incarnations. I think that the research that I did was mostly a lot of the stunt work that I put into it. The character herself I think remains quite mysterious, which is important. She’s covert.
Crave Online: Was the super hero genre something you wanted to get into? Was this a type of film you wanted to do for a long time?
Scarlett Johansson: I never really had thought about it before. Honestly, I have to say that before I saw the first Iron Man movie I had never really thought much about playing a super hero of any kind.
