Yelena (Florence Pugh) can whistle as exhausting as she likes, but Scarlett Johansson has made it clear that she has no plans on placing the long-lasting Black Widow wristbands again on and reprising her role within the MCU. After her character sacrificed herself to save the universe in Avengers: Endgame, her little sister has now taken over as the brand new ex-assassin wanting to go straight, and has been allowed to achieve this only recently by changing into one of many New Avengers in Thunderbolts. That does not imply that Johansson is ruling out returning to the MCU in a special capability, although, with the previous Avenger revealing she’d contemplate directing a future movie within the franchise, as a substitute.

Whereas attending Cannes with her latest directorial effort, Eleanor the Nice, Johannson spoke about the opportunity of popping again to the MCU with Deadline, after parting methods with it in 2021 with Black Widow, which gave her character a fond farewell. “I feel the films that I like which might be large motion motion pictures that additionally have the human connectivity piece,” she defined. “Even producing Black Widow and being part of the manufacturing of that, and the event of the story, and the story between Natasha and Yelena… [there is] I feel, a method of doing it, a method of sustaining the integrity of the thought of human connection, household, disappointment, the entire issues that have been themes in [Eleanor the Great], and doing it in a large method in a large universe — there’s methods of doing that… So, yeah, positively, it may very well be, it could be enjoyable.”