“This movie is not about revealing the Black Widow identity,” Johansson said. Johansson said the Black Widow character remains mysterious in “Iron Man 2.” “That’s what I realized, is that just putting in the hours and doing the training and repetition and basically just befriending the stunt team and spending all day, every day, just over and over and over and over until you sell it.” “You just have to put in the hours,” she said. She said ultimately, intensive training and repetition prevailed. It’s kind of everything all thrown into one big sort of fighting machine, so a big part of me is, like, ‘Can I move in this? Can I run in it?’” There’s some, like, gymnastics thrown in. “You know the character is an expert of hand-to-hand combat. “One thing obviously important for my character is that the costume moves,” she said. Johansson said the Black Widow uses a smorgasbord of fighting styles, all of which needed to work in conjunction with the costume. not sure exactly where she's coming from and what her intentions are necessarily.” “She does have a dark past, and I think that she is very seductive and distracting and we are. “We don’t know necessarily whether the character is villainous,” she said. Johansson is an addition for the sequel as Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow. When Stark is kidnapped, he’s forced to create a suit of armor to escape - and to keep his injured heart beating. “Iron Man 2” is the sequel to the highly successful 2008 film “Iron Man,” which starred Robert Downey Jr.
I just went, like, full force and did it.” “You’ve got to just do it and so I never turned back after that. “So I had a freak-out moment, but then it only lasted about a half a day and then it’s like, ‘Suck it up,’” she said while promoting the film at Comic-Con. Johansson said she knew from seeing the character and production sketches that she’d be in something that fit her form. Johansson plays the Black Widow, who in the comics is a Russian spy-turned-superhero who fights crime in a skintight catsuit. She's been in a comic-book movie before - some would consider 2001’s “Ghost World” her breakout role - but the costuming is tighter and expectations higher for Scarlett Johansson in “Iron Man 2,” opening May 7.