Earlier this week, Scarlett Johansson offered a few thoughts about returning to the role of Black Widow in this year’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and now the actress has turned her attention to 2015’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, heaping praise onto Joss Whedon’s script for the eagerly-anticipated sequel.
“Joss, again, is back, wrote the script, and is directing,” said Johansson in an interview with Parade. “I think the script is dark and it’s dry, it’s got this amazing one-liner, glass-cutting sense of humor. Obviously the script is very cerebral. It doesn’t lose that exciting comic book aspect that people enjoyed in the first film, but it’s smart and it feels like the next installment. It doesn’t feel like a rehashing, it feels like these characters are moving forward, plotlines are moving forward. It’s deep and I think that’s why people really respond to the Marvel universe, because the films are fun and exciting and have all that flashy stuff, but there’s a gravity to them. People can expect that gravity this time around.”
The Avengers: Age of Ultron will open on May 1st 2015 with a cast that also includes Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (The Incredible Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Quicksilver), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) and James Spader (Ultron).
Originally published January 14, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
