“You just have to put in the hours,” she said. She said ultimately, intensive training and repetition prevailed. It’s kind of everything all thrown into one big sort of fighting machine, so a big part of me is, like, ‘Can I move in this? Can I run in it?’” There’s some, like, gymnastics thrown in.
“You know the character is an expert of hand-to-hand combat. “One thing obviously important for my character is that the costume moves,” she said. Johansson said the Black Widow uses a smorgasbord of fighting styles, all of which needed to work in conjunction with the costume. not sure exactly where she's coming from and what her intentions are necessarily.” “She does have a dark past, and I think that she is very seductive and distracting and we are. “We don’t know necessarily whether the character is villainous,” she said. Johansson is an addition for the sequel as Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow. When Stark is kidnapped, he’s forced to create a suit of armor to escape - and to keep his injured heart beating. “Iron Man 2” is the sequel to the highly successful 2008 film “Iron Man,” which starred Robert Downey Jr.
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I just went, like, full force and did it.” “You’ve got to just do it and so I never turned back after that. “So I had a freak-out moment, but then it only lasted about a half a day and then it’s like, ‘Suck it up,’” she said while promoting the film at Comic-Con. Johansson said she knew from seeing the character and production sketches that she’d be in something that fit her form. Johansson plays the Black Widow, who in the comics is a Russian spy-turned-superhero who fights crime in a skintight catsuit.
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I think it’s pretty cool,” she added.She's been in a comic-book movie before - some would consider 2001’s “Ghost World” her breakout role - but the costuming is tighter and expectations higher for Scarlett Johansson in “Iron Man 2,” opening May 7. Now people, young girls, are getting a much more positive message, but it’s been incredible to be a part of that shift and be able to come out the other side and be a part of that old story, but also progress. Maybe I even would have, you know, my own self-worth was probably measured against that type of comment or, like a lot of young women, you come into your own and you understand your own self-worth. The actress also admitted to perceiving that type of comment as a compliment back then. Potts also calls Romanoff“ a very expensive sexual harassment lawsuit if you keep ogling her”. “I want some,” Stark tells Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts. What does he say?” Johansson told Collider. And Tony even refers to her as something like that at one point. “ was really fun and had a lot of great moments in it, the character is so sexualized, you know? Really talked about like she’s a piece of something, like a possession or a thing or whatever - like a piece of ass, really. From her first scene on screen, Romanoff is overtly sexualized, with Stark flicking through her pictures, including one where she wears lingerie.