BLACK WIDOW Star Scarlett Johansson Addresses Possible MCU Return: “Natasha Is Dead…[You] Have To Let It Go”
Scarlett Johansson’s time as Natasha Romanoff ended in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, when the hero sacrificed herself to save the universe. However, in a rather perplexing turn of events, a Black Widow movie followed two years later.
Set between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, it filled in some of the gaps in Natasha’s past and gave the MCU a new Black Widow in Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova.
Yelena alone made the movie a worthwhile cause, but Black Widow still wasn’t the movie many fans wanted. Scarlett Johansson is an executive producer on Thunderbolts, likely because of the movie’s connections to her 2021 blockbuster, but, beyond that, it seems her time as Natasha Romanoff is over.
Still, with Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars on the horizon, the original Black Widow—or one of her variants—returning surely isn’t outside the realm of possibility. If Johansson herself is to be believed, though, she’s well and truly done.