Snagging the cover story for next month's
Vanity Fair issue, actress Scarlett Johansson elaborated on various past events of her life including reprising her
Iron Man 2 role, 'Natasha Romanoff,' Black Widow, in Marvel's
The Avengers. Essentially discussing the intense training and fighting required for the highly-anticipated action-packed flick, read an except below.
“Even though Iron Man 2 was ‘one-for-them,’ I’d never done anything like that before. I’d never been physically driven in something, or a part of something so big,” Johansson recalled. “For The Avengers, I’ve spent so many months training with our stunt team, and fighting all the other actors, it’s crazy. I do nothing but fight—all the time. I have humongous muscles, by the way.” She offered me a bicep. I hesitated to touch celebrity flesh. “Go on.” I gave it a gentle squeeze. She was right; it was hard as a rock.
Marvel's The Avengers is the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner with Samuel L. Jackson and Tom Hiddleston, directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel's The Avengers will be released May 4, 2012.