Scarlett Johansson Says “It Felt Like A Big Mess” On The Avengers

The Avengers may have been the biggest film of 2012 but for star Scarlett Johansson, the filming of the huge comic-book team-up extravaganza was very different, telling Vanity Fair it “felt like a big mess”.

“When we made the first Avengers none of us knew what the potential would be,” Johansson said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “Iron Man was massively successful. It was huge. It built the studio of Marvel. Iron Man 2 was also successful.”

“There was Thor, but that character felt like it was from a completely different universe. It was such a different tone from the Iron Man movies,” she added. “The Captain America movie had its own identity as well. When you added the characters all together, plus Hulk and Hawkeye, it just felt like a big mess to be honest. Even on the set it felt crazy. We all looked insane.”

Johansson questioned the process and didn’t “think anybody knew if it was going to work or not besides Kevin Feige and Joss Whedon,” adding, “The cast had blind faith in them.”

However, it finally clicked for Johansson that The Avengers could be a hit after filming the iconic scene where the camera spins around the superheroes together.

“I the scene where we all are in that 360 of the characters together,” she said. “That was the moment where we all thought this maybe could work. It felt powerful. When we watched the playback it looked really cool, but so much of it didn’t feel cool when we were shooting it. We were young. We were having such a great time. We became such great friends. It was a blast.”

Scarlett Johansson played Black Widow in seven MCU films, culminating in her spin-off film in 2021.

Johansson is back on the big screen in Jurassic World: Rebirth, which opens on July 2nd.