(CNN)Scarlett Johansson says her profoundly expected film “Black Widow” started to truly come to fruition in 2017, in the midst of the #MeToo development.
Johansson said in another meeting with Yahoo that she and the screenwriters felt roused to draw examinations between the Marvel character’s story and that of ladies who had encountered maltreatment by men of force, all things considered.
“We had to comment on what is this incredible movement of women supporting other women, and coming through these shared experiences of trauma on the other side by really coming forward and supporting one another,” she said. “At the very beginning of really seriously talking about what this could be about, it was right during the beginning of the #MeToo movement and felt like, you cannot miss the opportunity to draw the comparison between these two things.”
The film follows Johansson’s person, Natasha Romanoff on a journey to overcome Dreykov who is seizing ladies and compelling them to become professional killers called “Widows.”
“She’s been the victim of childhood trauma and exploitation and it’s a past that she doesn’t want to face that she’s running away from,” Johansson said. “And then her sister, who’s this very self-possessed kind of firecracker liability in some ways, but person who is fiercely independent, basically forcing her to come to terms with that, forcing her to face it.”
Adding, “It seemed a lot of like what’s going on at this point. It was astounding to have the stage to have the option to remark on that.”
“Black Widow” is in theaters and on Disney+ Premimum Friday.