- She's won a Tony, been nominated for two Oscars
and her films have made more money
than any other actress, like ever.
You can see her now as Black Widow in Black Widow,
it's in theaters and on Disney Plus with premier access
starting Friday.
Give it up for Scarlett Johansson.
(upbeat music)
- Hello, how are you?
- I'm good. How are you?
- I'm so good. I'm so excited.
I literally love every movie you do.
I'm so excited about Black Widow.
- I'm literally, - Thank you.
- I'm into superhero stuff already.
But I love Lucy, I love everything you do.
Anyway. Where are you calling from?
- I am calling you from New York. Yes.
- Oh, right on.
- I live here.
Yeah. With my six-year-old daughter, Rose, and, yeah.
We've been here for a very long time now.
- So you've, you've done Broadway in New York
and I just mentioned you won a Tony.
So was there, I don't know, an onstage moment
that still sticks with you, either good or bad?
- Oh my gosh.
You know, it's such a blur because, you know,
the process is so intense and rigorous.
I mean, everything is, is so unfly
when you're on stage because, you know,
it's all happening right there in front of the audience
and nothing is being captured.
And, you know, that's the beauty of live theater
is that you get the show that you get.
And for better or worse, I mean,
I remember one time, my character, we were.
The last show that I did was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
And my character Maggie spends a lot of time dressing
and undressing and preparing herself and moving around.
And she's just like on a, on a trail of fury,
like blazing through.
And I go to zip up this dress that,
you know, is part of my costume
and the thing just won't go on.
And, you know, I can't just,
you're not gonna look out into the audience
and be like, sorry folks, let me just
five minutes for this quick costume, you know, like redo.
I just basically had to pick out another prop dress
and like zip it up and just thank God it fit me.
And I didn't spend half the show running around half naked.
So that was good.
Yeah, I mean those kinds of things happen all the time.
- I love that - It's very intense.
- About live theater because it's
look, it's you get what you get.
It's that night and it's live it's in the moment.
And it feels like, I don't know, the energy is cooler to me.
My daughter is at this point where she gets very frustrated
that she can't do every single thing with me right now.
Like she wants to go to work with me.
She wants to sit on the couch right here.
She wants to do everything I do.
The Voice or whatever I'm doing,
she wants to do everything I'm doing.
Does your daughter do that right now?
- Yeah, I call her, she like shadows me.
- Yes.
- All the time, which is wonderful
and I know it's something that, you know,
I'm sure in a few years
she's not gonna want anything to do with me.
And so I should soak it all up,
but there's definitely times where, you know,
she's on the other side of the bathroom door
and I'm like, Rose, you gotta give me a minute.
- Yeah.
- You gotta give me a minute. Everybody needs their time.
But you know, she means well, and I, you know,
I'd rather have it that way than her wanting
nothing to do with me, you know?
- No, agreed. I'm with you.
But literally that's the one time I think
I yell the most in my house.
When I'm just gimme a second.
I'm just need the bathroom for a minute.
And sometimes, no lie, I'm not peeing,
I'm just answering emails
or trying to catch up on something.
But I just need a minute.
Anyway, but when you're in New York,
do you go watch, you know, Colin's SNL tapings a lot?
- You know, I think now that I have this unique position
of being married to somebody who's, you know,
a head writer on the show
and, you know, is in it like as his regular job,
day, you know, his regular day job.
I now rarely watch the show without having like,
just a sort of, I would say an over like a sense of,
not overwhelming panic,
just like a slight underwhelming panic.
- Yeah.
- Because I just feel, you know,
at any moment I feel like something's going to fall apart
and that's the excitement of SNL
and for all audiences, right, is that it's absolutely live.
But when you're emotionally invested in it,
and not just being entertained by it,
yeah, it takes on a little bit of a different life.
(motorcycle engine humming)
(machine gun fire)
(car windows smashing)
- Okay, you got a plan
or shall I just stay ducked and cover?
- My plan was to drive us away?
- Well, your plans sucks.
(car wheels screech)
(motorcycle, car crash)
You're welcome.
(audience cheering)
- Wow! I'm so excited.
I'm such a nerd for these show's out.
What's up everybody?
We are back with Scarlett Johansson. Give it up.
(audience cheering)
That was a look at her new bad-ass movie, Black Widow.
It's out this Friday.
I have so many Avengers questions,
but first just a little spoiler alert
for those at home who still haven't seen End Game,
which, shame on you.
In Avengers End Game, Black Widow dies.
You're welcome.
Okay. So moving on.
Scarlett, where is this movie in the timeline?
- So, firstly, I love that it's Black Widow dies, wonk, wonk
(laughter)
But yeah, that was a downer. (laughs)
But yeah, so this film takes place just after,
if you're familiar with the timeline
of the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
so it happens right after Civil War.
When, you know, all that we have.
S.H.E.I.L.D. basically collapses and, you know,
everything that Natasha has known is, you know,
basically fallen apart.
And every, any family she's been attached to, you know,
is no longer.
And she's really kind of out on her own
for the first time in her entire life.
And so this gives us an opportunity
to really take her back to the beginning
and to explore, you know, where she comes from
and, you know, how, what makes her tick.
We want, you know, audiences to know
that she didn't die in vain
and that she makes active choices in her life.
And so this is the exploration of that.
With all the things that you love about Marvel as well.
It's extremely explosive. It's got, you know.
- I love it.
- I think some of the best hand-to-hand combat
that we've been able to do in in the MCU,
so it's very exciting.
- I'm actually glad that you brought that up
because a lot of them have all these super powers
and whatever, and that's one of the things
I love about your character.
You're just a super bad-ass Ninja chick.
And just like, I mean, you're just like,
I feel like it's like, it's amazing.
Like it's not like you're just flying, you know,
or anything.
Like you're actually just nailing it.
Just being like human, like some kind of superhuman Ninja.
And I think that's awesome.
But I have to ask you, you can't pick you,
although we might want to 'cause you're a bad-ass.
What Avenger character is your favorite?
Mine's Dr. Strange. What?
- Oh man. That's, that's really tough.
- I know 'cause you're like friends with him,
but I'm don't know him, so it's easy for me. (laughs)
- I would, I mean, I love Okoye. She's one of my favorites.
- Oh, yeah.
- I just think she's so, so incredible
and Danai's an amazing actor.
I've loved working with her.
We've literally been in the actual trenches together.
So I'm probably gonna go with Okoye.
Just, I just think, what she did in Black Panther
was so awesome.
- Yeah.
- And I'm really excited to see what
she's gonna do in the next one.
- Oh my God. Black Panther was so good.
So what kind of female characters
did you look up to as a girl?
Mine were mostly musicians,
but I know that you're a musician as well.
You're a singer as well. Do we have those?
- I love to sing. I've always loved to sing.
- Yeah.
- In the face of someone like you, I feel like that's,
you know, that's just for fun.
But you have such an amazingly voice.
- No, I'd love to, (mumbles), that was amazing.
I think you're great.
- Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. I mean, growing up, I really loved,
I also loved musical theater growing up,
and I loved movie musicals growing up.
You know, I loved all the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.
I absolutely loved Judy Garland.
She was like my hero North Star growing up and, you know,
I wanted to be Judy Garland growing up.
That's that's really who I looked up to.
You know, I loved Natalie Wood growing up.
I loved Roslyn Russell. I watched a lot of movies,
you know, that my mom loved when she was a little girl.
And you know, there were so many wonderful actresses
from the golden age of Hollywood, too, that I admired.
So I was exposed to a lot of very strong female performers.
- Yeah. I was going through, you were naming all these
like prestigious things.
And I was like, I remember when I was a kid,
I really wanted to be a mix of
Claire Huxtable and Dixie Carter from Designing Women.
(laughter)
I was like, we could not be so different.
I was like, mine were like characters.
I was like, oh, these are like really strong women.
But I did love though that we grew up,
like with characters like that for females.
They weren't just one thing.
They really branched out like when we were kids.
I thought that was really cool.
And it was, you know, if you don't see it, you can't be it,
you know, a lot of the times.
So if you had to pick one Marvel character
to babysit for you, would you pick Captain America,
Iron Man or Nick Fury?
- Oh, gosh.
- I kinda feel like this is a no-brainer.
- No, I'm not sure about that.
Are these the actual characters?
Or the people that play them?
- Oh my gosh. I want, now I want.
I knew you were gonna go to Captain America.
Who doesn't go to Captain America.
So who are you going to pick in real life?
- In real life? I would probably pick.
I'd probably go with Sam.
- Okay. I love it.
- Yeah. I trust Sam so much.
- Yeah.
- We've worked together.
I mean, I trust all those guys so much.
I've worked all of them for such a long time.
But you know, Sam, like he would be able to.
He's just been there. He has his own grown daughter.
He's got it figured out.
I would totally trust him
with my most precious piece of my heart,
I would trust with Sam for sure.
And she, your daughter would also know the F bomb,
like within seconds.
So it's amazing. (laughs)
He is my favorite person on the planet that uses the F word.
Every time, like if I see him anywhere,
I'm like, please say it. (laughter)