If you’ve seen the new trailer for “Iron Man 2″ (and if you’ve not, what are you waiting for?!?), you may have seen the first footage of actress Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow. (We’d previously seen stills of her in costume, but this is the first time we’ve got a brief, live-action glimpse).
As the trailer makes it way around the Internet, Johansson is talking about the role as Black Widow, going so far as to say she’d be interested in reprising the role in the future–whether it’s in another “Iron Man” movie or the upcoming “Avengers” film.
“I hope it will happen. I don’t know if that’s where it’s going go but she’s definitely a big part of the Avengers,” she said. “I think that Marvel is very much invested in these characters just as much as the fans are, just as much as I am. You want the fans to like the character, you want them to believe in the character, root for them, and want to see them again.”
“So I’m hoping that if the fans support the character, that we’ll see her again,” she said.
Johansson went on to tell MTV News that she enjoyed the role as the Iron Man nemesis.
“What do I like about the character? Everything. Her fabulous outfit. Her wonderful hair. Everything,” said Johansson.
“The character does a lot of hand-to-hand combat, it’s a sort of defensive style of fighting because she’s small,” the actress said of her training.
Johansson seemed to reiterate stories echoed by many of the other “Iron Man 2″ cast members regarding the very big movie that actually felt very small during filming.
“I thought it would be a little bit daunting, especially because I came into the project as a huge fan of the first movie,” she explained. “I think roughly 80 per cent of the crew was back from the first one so it had a real familial feeling and even though the project seemed larger than life and sort of epic, it’s got a sort of small kind of communal feeling on the set. I attribute that to Jon [Favreau] and Robert [Downey Jr.] and Marvel. They are dedicated to sort of keeping it all in the family, which I really appreciate. So it was nice.”
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