Johansson slams Widow treatment

Scarlett Johansson is lamenting the hypersexualization of her Black Widow character in past Marvel films. “I mean, you look back at Iron Man 2 and while it was really fun and had a lot of great moments in it, the character is so sexualized, you know?” Johansson told Collider in 2019, although the interview was published this week. “Really talked about like she's a piece of something, like a possession or a thing or whatever — like a piece of ass, really. And Tony (Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr.) even refers to her as something like that at one point. What does he say? `I want some.'” Johansson will star as the superhero, also known as Natasha Romanoff, in the stand-alone Black Widow film set for theatres and Disney+ on July 9.