Scarlett Johansson is looking back on filming The Avengers and said it initially “felt like a big mess.”
The Black Widow star remembered the lead-up to the 2012 film team-up connecting the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“When we made the first Avengers none of us knew what the potential would be,” Johansson said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “Iron Man was massively successful. It was huge. It built the studio of Marvel. Iron Man 2 was also successful.”
Johansson made her MCU debut as Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) in 2010’s Iron Man 2 before starring in 2012’s The Avengers.
“There was Thor, but that character felt like it was from a completely different universe. It was such a different tone from the Iron Man movies,” she added. “The Captain America movie had its own identity as well. When you added the characters all together, plus Hulk and Hawkeye, it just felt like a big mess to be honest. Even on the set it felt crazy. We all looked insane.”
Johansson questioned the process and didn’t “think anybody knew if it was going to work or not besides Kevin Feige and Joss Whedon,” adding, “The cast had blind faith in them.”
However, it finally clicked for Johansson that The Avengers could be a hit after filming the iconic scene where the camera spins around the superheroes together.
“I remember the scene where we all are in that 360 of the characters together,” she said. “That was the moment where we all thought this maybe could work. It felt powerful. When we watched the playback it looked really cool, but so much of it didn’t feel cool when we were shooting it. We were young. We were having such a great time. We became such great friends. It was a blast.”
Watch Johansson’s complete interview with Vanity Fair in the video below.
Source link
