That Time Black Widow’s Writer Ran Marvel Lines With Scarlett Johansson (And It Didn’t Go Quite How He Expected)

Black Widow in her white suit talking to Alexi in the back of a helicopter .

Of all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies released so far, one that has seemingly become surprisingly vital to the franchise’s future is Black Widow. While the movie didn’t make a massive splash upon release (for reasons that were largely out of its control), it ultimately was key to Thunderbolts* which in turn is likely to be important to Avengers: Doomsday. It’s also an important movie to its writer, who had an epic experience with star Scarlett Johansson on set.

One of the reasons Black Widow had a rough go was that it came out during the global pandemic. Screenwriter Eric Pearson recently told THR that his memorable ScarJo encounter only came about because another cast member was sick, likely with an early case of COVID. Pearson said…