

“She does have a dark past, and I think that she is very seductive and distracting and we are. “We don’t know necessarily whether the character is villainous,” she said.

Johansson is an addition for the sequel as Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow. When Stark is kidnapped, he’s forced to create a suit of armor to escape - and to keep his injured heart beating. “Iron Man 2” is the sequel to the highly successful 2008 film “Iron Man,” which starred Robert Downey Jr. I just went, like, full force and did it.” “You’ve got to just do it and so I never turned back after that. “So I had a freak-out moment, but then it only lasted about a half a day and then it’s like, ‘Suck it up,’” she said while promoting the film at Comic-Con. Johansson said she knew from seeing the character and production sketches that she’d be in something that fit her form. Johansson plays the Black Widow, who in the comics is a Russian spy-turned-superhero who fights crime in a skintight catsuit. She's been in a comic-book movie before - some would consider 2001’s “Ghost World” her breakout role - but the costuming is tighter and expectations higher for Scarlett Johansson in “Iron Man 2,” opening May 7.
