Scarlett Johansson On Being An "honorary fanboy" and Training For Iron Man 2!

Scarlett Johansson On Being An "honorary fanboy" and Training For Iron Man 2!

The Iron Man 2 actress talks about her newfound comic book collection and whether she really did train in the art of Mexican wrestling to play Black Widow...

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By JoshWilding - May 04, 2010 05:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Iron Man 2
Source: MTV Splash Page

In the first video, the actress who is married to Ryan Reynolds (who is set to play both Marvel's Deadpool and DC's Green Lantern!) talks about the stacks of comics the couple have now built up after both getting involved in the world of comic book movies:



"There are a lot of comic books in the house," Johansson told MTV News. "More so than I've ever had in my life. If you came over, you'd probably think that we were total fanboys, but it's all for the purpose of research."

"I'm sort of an honorary fanboy, I suppose, now that I've donned that suit and those bracelets and all of that stuff," she said. "You do get into the origin story and it's very complicated and really interesting."

"I actually love to read comics, I've just never been a reader of the Marvel universe, so this is a whole new bag of tricks for me!"

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In this second video from MTV, the actress discusses Jon Favreau's recent remarks stating that she used the Mexican wrestling style of lucha libre to train for her role as Black Widow and his following comment that, "I thought it was a little comical with all of the swinging around, flips, holds and acrobatic moves, but when you see a woman doing it in the Black Widow costume, and it's not a pot-bellied wrestler with a mask, it has a much different effect."



"That is totally untrue," she laughed. "I don't know where that came from."

"He's insane!" she said of director Jon Favreau. "I don't know what he's talking about. That never happened. I'm going to have to have a word with him afterwards."

"It was a bit daunting at first, especially when I was watching whatever Tom Harper, our stunt coordinator, had cut together, these sequences that he was planning and choreographing," she went on to explain. "It was like, 'I'm going to be doing that in how many months?' It just seemed like it'd be really painful. And it was. It all paid off in the end."

Iron Man 2 is out now in the UK and will be released in the US on May 7th.
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