Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s Scarlett Johansson: Marvel Characters to be Darker, More Complex

In a new interview with MovieFone, Scarlett Johansson said that she thinks that audiences are ready for The Avengers to go darker and more complex.The Captain America: The Winter Soldier star thinks that, in general, it’s time for the pasts of Marvel’s premiere super team to come back to haunt them — but especially her character, Black Widow, whose shadowy past you get to see glimpses of in Cap 2.”I think all of these characters have dark pasts,” Johansson said. “A lot of us are superheroes that didn’t choose to be. My character is a mercenary to begin with and was sort of put into the Widow program. She’s had a dark past, and she’s just beginning to discover how her past affects her when we see her in Cap 2. I think she’s had to dehumanize in a way, obviously, as anyone in that position does just to be able to accomplish the things that she’s had to. But now she’s like, ‘Wow, I actually have nightmares about this stuff.’ She’s starting to realize, Wow, I’m a product of what I’ve done in some way. And I think, in Avengers 2, it’s about time that our past comes back to haunt us in some way—all of us, I think, in one way or another.”