Scarlett Johansson Made Marvel Pull Her Name From 'Thunderbolts'

If you’ve seen Thunderbolts, then you know that it’s all but a sequel to Black Widow thanks to the heavy presence of Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova and David Harbour’s Red Guardian. If you’re like me, you probably forgot all about the fracas over Black Widow when Marvel decided to dump the film on Disney+ during the pandemic. Well, Scarlett Johansson did not forget. Despite prior remarks that she doesn’t hold a grudge about what went down, she recently revealed in a new interview with Harbour that she made Marvel pull her executive producer credit from Thunderbolts. That’s no small thing. She essentially told them to keep their damn money and keep her name off that sh*t. (Interview)

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