- Who is Black Widow?
That's a good question.
That's kind of the question we answer with this film.
- I tell people my sister moved out west.
You're thinking about moving,
but you're going to wait until the interest rates go down.
- That's not my story.
I would call her, in some ways, a gun for hire,
although she's not really been,
she was really groomed to work for an organization,
and she's kind of been passed through the system
for a very long time, eventually defected from the Red Room,
and then ended up working for Shield,
became an Avenger.
And when we find her in this film, it's after "Civil War,"
so the Avengers have disbanded.
Any kind of sense of like family structure
that she's known before is lost,
and we find her in a time
where she's really, kind of, on her own.
And she's really then forced to,
kind of, confront her past,
and the decisions and choices that were made for her,
and make right some of the wrongs
that have plagued her in the past.
- Who is Yelena,
and what does she actually need the world to know?
I don't know, other than she has to have her opinion voiced
throughout the entire movie.
Where we meet her in the movie, she's, in some sense,
being her own person for the first time,
and her sister is watching this happen.
And to me, I just love,
and amongst all of this amazing superhero-ness,
you've still got that wonderfully annoying relationship
between younger and older sister,
and no matter what good Natasha does for the world,
Yelena is there to poke her,
and be like, "That's not good enough,
that's not good enough,"
and I just loved how real that was.
It was definitely fun to play.
Okay, you got a plan, or shall I just stay, duck, and cover?
- Yeah, my plan was to drive us away.
- Well, your plan sucks.
- This guy, he was kind of the great hope
of the Soviet Union.
He was the answer to Captain America
in the arms race between Russia and America,
and it's been fun to play both aspects of that.
Jim Hopper very much is...
and we set it up at the end of the season,
he's very much the American,
that's what they call him in the Russian prison,
and so he goes over to Russia as the American.
And so the take on that is very much like
the 1980s American in the midst of the Cold War
over in Russia.
In "Black Widow," I get to play the opposite.
He's got Karl Marx written on his knuckles.
I mean, he's a real devotee of the communist ideal.
The movie takes place about 25 years past his prime,
so he starts off having made some very bad decisions.
He's big, and he's kind of tatted up, and just a mess.
The movie, for him,
is about this reconnecting of this family of spies.
- Natasha, don't slouch.
- I'm not slouching.
- Listen to your mother.
- Oh my God, this is... - Up, up.
- Alright, enough, all of you.
- I didn't say anything, that's not fair.
- The expectation that one would have
of their mother or father to take care of them,
to protect them, to be responsible for them
is kind of marred by the fact that
these two characters, Alexei and Melina,
they don't have the kind of parental sense of responsibility
that comes with like raising your own children,
and so it's very, very complicated.
And of course, when these characters all meet
so many years later,
their relationships are all kind of had been frozen in time,
and so they kind of go back,
right back to that like messiness
that you had when you were a teenager,
and it all just goes right back to that
when they see each other again,
which is really fun to play, and fun to watch, I think.