We knew that some time had passed between
Captain America: Civil War and
Avengers: Infinity War, but we didn't realize just how much.
Scarlett Johansson, who plays Black Widow in each film, recently made it clear in an interview with ET, and it seems it's been at least 2 to 3 years since the last time we saw Widow, Cap, and their band of secret Avengers.
When we last saw these characters in Civil War it's been probably 2 or 3 years that have passed, and our characters have been kind of part of some sort of counter-terrorism unit efforts but we're flying under the radar, and you know it's a lot I think when you are on these kinds of missions with no governmental support. You don't even have the support of just the general public, and you're sort of running rogue, trying to do what you know is best for the common man but you don't have someone to guide you or support you.
We're kind of fractured ourselves, and then, of course, the last we saw Hulk he was floating into the stratosphere. Now we are reintroduced to this whole expanded universe. There's been a lot of change that's gone on since the original Avengers assembled.
And while on the topic of Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner, Johansson had this to say:
I just finished Avengers: Infinity War. The first one. My character has this ongoing relationship with Mark Ruffalo's character. I had such devastation that day. I don't know why. I was so devastated. It was something about this character that Mark plays, and this is something that should feel so solid and suddenly doesn't or there's... And it reminded me of so much of the things going on in my own life at the time…
What do you think about Johansson's comments and the time difference between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War? Here's the full interview: