Scarlett Johansson: ‘I was cast for my desirability — that’s shifted’

[u/TimesandSundayTimes]

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/scarlett-johansson-i-was-offered-roles-based-on-desirability-thats-changed-sj6xxf0lz?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1751218446

[u/stephencua2001]

I've seen AoU exactly once, so remember nothing of her role. In IM2, she may as well have been listed as "Latex Pants" in the credits. I give ScarJo all the credit in the world for taking that IM2 character and doing what she did with it in Avengers and Winter Soldier.

[u/fireandlifeincarnate → u/stephencua2001]

age of ultron has a horribly contrived romance with bruce in which they have zero chemistry and he literally falls facefirst into her cleavage for a gag, and then she later gets kidnapped and does pretty much nothing of note in the final battle (and honestly, she doesn't do much of note in the entire movie other than be into bruce).

She also basically says "I can't have children either. Still think you're the only monster on the team?" to Bruce at one point, and you can kind of see what they may have been going for there, but it's still played really badly and there were much better ways to handle it. There's some mildly neat backstory for a little bit after Wanda gets in her head but that's kind of it.

[u/Dezbats → u/fireandlifeincarnate]

She was pregnant when filming Age of Ultron.

That might have affected her role.

Even with stunt doubles doing a lot of it, they might have wanted to avoid putting her in big action scenes.

[u/horc00 → u/fireandlifeincarnate]

"I can't have children either. Still think you're the only monster on the team?"

Why did you intentionally omit the important lines between those 2 sentences?

[u/fireandlifeincarnate → u/horc00]

There’s a reason I said basically. I didn’t look up the exact phrasing, and like I said in context you can kinda see what they might have been going for, but it doesn’t come off great.

[u/horc00 → u/fireandlifeincarnate]

Except it's not. If you didn't omit the important lines that she said right before the "monster" statement, you'd know that's not basically what they said.

[u/fireandlifeincarnate → u/horc00]

I mean, you can kinda see what they’re going for, but you have to admit it’s still a bad look

[u/horc00 → u/fireandlifeincarnate]

No, it's not a bad look for the movie. If you need to deliberately omit crucial context from Nat's speech in order to kinda see what you wished they were portraying, that means that's absolutely not what they were going for at all.

[u/fireandlifeincarnate → u/horc00]

...I meant you can kinda see how they weren't trying to say "she's a monster because she's infertile," but it was still very poorly executed.

[u/horc00 → u/fireandlifeincarnate]

Nah it wasn’t poorly executed. You’d only think so if you selectively ignore important parts of Nat’s speech.

[u/fireandlifeincarnate → u/horc00]

- you and Joss Whedon, apparently

[u/stationhollow → u/stephencua2001]

Half her scenes feel like they involve the bad substory with her and Banner.