Robert Downey Jr. is so linked to the role of Iron Man that it is impossible to imagine anyone else playing the mouthy hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
10.05.2023 - 04:13 / msn.com
Scarlett Johansson was introduced as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2, and she went on to become the highest-grossing actor ever, she was a hustling performer, who was starting to have doubts about her career. While this movie star is now one of the major powerhouses in Hollywood, before joining the MCU she was starting to feel “frustrated and hopeless” about her career, and she recently got candid about how she was feeling before she was cast as Natasha Romanoff.
Following her breakout role in Lost in Translation, Johansson went on to play roles in movies like He’s Just Not That Into You and The Prestige, among others. However, she wasn’t the movie star we recognize her as today.
While chatting with Variety, she mentioned that in the years leading up to Iron Man 2’s release in 2010, she was starting to feel “frustrated and hopeless,” especially after losing two big roles, which included the aforementioned MCU movie. Originally, Emily Blunt was cast as the Black Widow in the Iron Man sequel, while Johansson had been denied the role.
After the Edge of Tomorrow star dropped out of the movie because she was contractually obligated to shoot Gulliver’s Travels, the actor we’ve come to recognize as Black Widow was called back in. Following that movie, as you know if you’ve seen the Marvel movies in order, Johansson went on to star in eight more MCU projects, including her stand-alone film Black Widow in 2021.
Reflecting back on her long career, and how joining the MCU impacted it, Johansson candidly explained how she felt about playing Natasha Romanoff at first, saying:And grow she did. Johansson has been open about why her Marvel contract worked so well, and in between MCU movies, she went on to star in other films which led
.Robert Downey Jr. is so linked to the role of Iron Man that it is impossible to imagine anyone else playing the mouthy hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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