Scarlett Johansson will “hand the baton” to Florence Pugh in ‘Black Widow’
Marvel.Black Widow director Cate Shortland has revealed in a new interview that Scarlett Johansson, the incumbent titular assassin (known as Natasha Romanoff when not on duty), will “hand the baton” to Pugh’s Yelena Belova in the forthcoming Marvel movie.Shortland told Empire in an exclusive interview for the magazine’s issue on sale this Thursday (July 9) that the team was blown away by Pugh’s performance. She hinted that a big future is in store for the 24-year-old actress.“[Kevin Feige – MCU president] realised that the audience would expect an origin story so, of course, we went in the opposite direction,” Shortland told Empire.