"I had to chase Mickey down because he wasn't sure he wanted to do it but Robert actually badgered Mickey every step of the way during the awards tour for Tropic Thunder," Favreau says. Paramount Pictures wasn't the only reluctant party. I said, 'Exactly, here we go again, trust me.'" They were like, 'Oh, here we go again,' because we'd been through it with Robert on the first one. I knew him from Sin City and I saw The Wrestler and I said, 'This is the guy.' The studio wasn't pleased with the idea.
This time, the director says, "I had to sell the studio on Mickey. Three years ago, Favreau had a tough time convincing the studio to cast Downey as Iron Man's lead. “It’s totally different than anything you’ve seen her do before.Favreau – who, playing the role of Stark chauffeur Happy Hogan, gets slammed to a boxing-ring floor by Johansson in the sequel – made his most inspired Iron Man 2 casting choice by picking Mickey Rourke to play the heavy: ex-con Russian inventor Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash. “I think people are going to be very impressed when they see her,” he added.
Jon also noted that fans will see Scarlett in a whole new way after the “Iron Man” sequel. She likes food, as do I, and she was definitely on a low-carb diet and training very hard. “She was wearing an unforgiving costume,” Jon said. Like, ‘Okay.’”Īlong with her work training, “Iron Man 2” director Jon Favreau credits Scarlett’s ability to give up some of her favorite foods in making the Black Widow suit look so good. “When everybody in the crew were like, ‘That looks awesome!’ I knew. “Certainly walking on set, because a lot of the people that worked on the film were fans of the comic and of course they knew the Black Widow – they were all super excited to see the Black Widow,” she told the mag. It was pretty sweet, I have to say,” she continued.Īnd she said the crew gave her the thumbs up when they laid eyes on her. “It was crazy to see it for the first time – everything all zipped up and all the weapons in there, bracelets on, the whole look. The first time she saw herself in the skin-tight get up – even she was impressed with how it turned out. “It was many, many, hours, days, and months of stunt training and strength training, but it’s fun because I had a goal,” she told People. Scarlett said the sight of her character’s costume helped her through the long hours of training and stunt work needed for the movie. “It’s really exciting to see it all culminate to this point and really get to see the Black Widow up there on the big screen.” ” very challenging and really exciting for me because I have never had to do anything like this before,” the actress told Access Hollywood on Saturday at Comic-Con in San Diego. Scarlett Johansson is set to take on Tony Stark in the upcoming “Iron Man 2,” but the actress revealed her biggest challenge was preparing to wear her character’s revealing Lycra catsuit.