Scarlett Johansson never stepped foot in a gym before ‘Iron Man 2’ role

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2010’s “Iron Man 2.”But Johansson divulged in a new profile for Vanity Fair that when she took on the role, she “had never stepped foot in a gym” before her intense training for the action flick.The “Lost in Translation” actress also described her casting — at around age “23 or 24” — as “a humongous moment” for her.“I had never stepped foot in a gym, and I had five weeks to prepare myself for these huge stunt sequences,” she explained.“Back then when we were doing it, over a decade ago, it was before we kind of figured out how to be most efficient in the process of shooting stunt work – what could be handed off to other stunt people and what the actor would practically need to know,” she continued. “So I was doing these huge choreographed sequences and I had no previous experience with any of that stuff.

It was just a massive lifestyle change immediately upon getting cast,” the Oscar-nominated star said, adding that she wound up going to a “massive, huge, muscle meathead gym” in Los Angeles.

And the experience was apparently less than comfortable for her.“I didn’t know how to use any of the equipment. I mean, I was so intimidated,” she said.Johansson also discussed how she became “so protective” of both of her pregnancies while being in the spotlight.

She shares a 7-year-old daughter, Rose, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and a son — Cosmo, born last August — with her current spouse, “Saturday Night Live” star Colin Jost. “Obviously having children is the biggest life-changing thing.