Scarlett Johansson is asking out the Academy.
The actress, 40, shared her shock at “Avengers: Endgame” by no means being nominated for an Oscar for Greatest Image.
“Black Panther” is the one Marvel flick to land an Oscar nod within the coveted class.
“How did this film not get nominated for an Oscar?” Johansson requested throughout an interview with Vainness Honest on Wednesday concerning the film that solely acquired a nom for visible results.
“It was an impossible movie that should not have worked, that really works as a film — and also, it’s one of the most successful films of all time.”
“Endgame,” which got here out in 2019, noticed the dying of Johansson’s Black Widow. The star had portrayed the fictional character named Natasha Romanoff since 2010’s “Iron Man 2.”
Natasha’s sister, Yelena Belova, is performed by Florence Pugh. The English actress, 29, reprised her function in “Thunderbolts*,” which has already neared $280 million on the field workplace after its second weekend in theaters.
“It would be very hard for me to understand in what capacity [returning] would make sense for me, for the character that I play,” Johansson defined. “I miss my buddies and really would love to be with them forever, but what works about the character is that her story is complete. I don’t want to mess with that. For fans, too — it’s important for them.”
Together with snubbing “Avengers” in 2019, the “Fly Me to the Moon” star had one other situation with the Oscar’s most up-to-date ceremony.
“Why was it so long?” Johansson quipped, to which Vainness Honest famous that the James Bond tribute was a protracted second through the present.
The director replied: “No comment. It felt like an ad placement. What a weird thing. People were like, ‘What the hell was that?’”
Throughout an interview with InStyle in March, Johansson doubled down on not returning to the Marvel universe.
“Natasha is dead. She is dead. She’s dead. Okay?” she instructed the outlet on the time. “They just don’t want to believe it. They’re like, ‘But she could come back!’ Look, I think the balance of the entire universe is held in her hand. We’re going to have to let it go. She saved the world. Let her have her hero moment.”’
Johansson’s character was final seen within the 2021 prequel “Black Widow.”
That very same 12 months, the Oscar nominee filed a lawsuit in opposition to The Walt Disney Firm, alleging that the movie being launched in each theaters and on Disney+ was a breach of contract. Johansson claimed that the deal was to launch the undertaking in theaters solely. The events reached an undisclosed settlement months later.
The subsequent movie within the franchise, “Avengers: Doomsday,” hits theaters in Might 2026.
Johansson, in the meantime, will subsequent star in “The Phoenician Scheme” on June 6 and “Jurassic World: Rebirth” on July 2. She additionally directed “Eleanor the Great” starring June Squibb, which is premiering on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant.
