Was Avengers: Endgame snubbed on the 2020 Oscars? Scarlett Johansson thinks so.
Within the June cowl story for Vanity Fair, revealed on Wednesday, the Eleanor the Nice director mirrored on her time within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly certainly one of her final stints with the franchise in 2019’s Endgame. The movie noticed the demise of her character, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, and he or she nonetheless believes the Academy snubbed the film.
“How did this movie not get nominated for an Oscar?” the Black Widow star questioned of Endgame not receiving a nom in one of the best image class. “It was an inconceivable film that ought to not have labored, that actually works as a movie.”
Endgame didn’t come up utterly dry on the 2020 Academy Awards, incomes one nod for finest achievement in visible results.
“Additionally, it’s one of the profitable movies of all time,” she added, referencing the 2019 MCU movie being the No. 2 highest grossing movie ever, incomes $2.79 billion. Endgame falls solely behind Avatar because the No. 1 film of all time with $2.92 billion, although the MCU movie did beforehand cross Avatar within the rating in July 2019.
Within the profile, Johansson additionally asserted that “it will be very onerous” for her to “perceive in what capability” reprising her function of Natasha/Black Widow “would make sense for me.” Natasha died in Endgame within the Avengers’ combat in opposition to Thanos, which is a narrative arc that she doesn’t “need to mess with.”
“I miss my buddies and actually would like to be with them eternally, however what works in regards to the character is that her story is full,” Johansson defined. “I don’t need to mess with that. For followers too — it’s necessary for them.”
Johansson beforehand shot down the concept of returning to the MCU as Natasha in a March interview with InStyle, affirming that “we’re going to need to let [the idea of Natasha returning] go.”
“Natasha is useless. She is useless. She’s useless. OK?” she mentioned. “They only don’t need to consider it. They’re like, ‘However she might come again!’ Look, I feel the stability of the complete universe is held in her hand. We’re going to need to let it go. She saved the world. Let her have her hero second.”
Johansson made her MCU debut with Iron Man 2, swiftly turning into a fixture within the franchise as one of many six authentic Avengers within the 2012 tentpole The Avengers. Regardless of Natasha’s demise in Endgame, Johansson returned as soon as extra to star in 2021’s Black Widow, the prequel movie which make clear her character’s upbringing whereas introducing Thunderbolts* stars Florence Pugh and David Harbour.