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Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel character Natasha Romanov has plenty of fans around the world, but her daughter Rose isn’t one of them.
The actress, who appears on screen alongside Channing Tatum in Fly Me to the Moon, revealed that her nine-year-old son is “too scared” to watch The Avengers or Black Widow films.
“She likes me playing Black Widow, but she’s too scared to watch an Avengers movie,” the doting mom said. People.
“She’s like, ‘It’s violent.’ I’m like, ‘Oh God,'” the action star said.
The Oscar nominee shares her daughter with her ex-husband, French journalist Romain Dauriac.
Scarlett Johansson says her nine-year-old daughter Rose isn’t a fan of her Marvel movies
The elementary schooler seemed fine with her mother’s latest role as a con artist turned marketing genius who helps film a top-secret fake moon landing for the government in 1969.
“I think what she’s most excited about is hair and makeup,” the actress said.
The star added: “It’s so funny… She’s feminine.”
When viewers watch the film, which opens in theaters July 11, they’ll see a cameo by Johansson’s husband, Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost, 42.
The actress said she had nothing to do with the casting and that it was director Greg Berlanti who wanted to include her husband of four years in the project.
‘(He) said to me, “Do you think Colin would want to do…?” Greg and Colin have a great relationship and they’re both comedy writers and, I think, they’re a bit similar in personality in some ways,’ he explained.
“I think he was very excited about Colin coming and him doing the cameo. I said, ‘Yeah, I’m sure if you ask him, I wouldn’t ask him,'” she said.
The couple are proud parents of two-year-old son Cosmo.
“She likes me playing Black Widow, but she’s too scared to watch an Avengers movie,” the doting mom told People.
Johansson said her daughter was excited about her latest film, Fly Me to the Moon, set during the first manned trip to the moon in 1969. “I think she’s excited mostly because of the hair and makeup,” the actress said. “It’s so much fun… She’s girly.”
Johansson’s husband Colin Jost has a small cameo in the romantic comedy, but it was at the request of director Greg Berlanti. He was very excited to have Colin come and do a cameo. I was like, “Yeah, I’m sure if you ask him, I’m not going to ask him.” (Photographed in New York on July 8)
Acting together is something the pair don’t do often, even though the Asteroid City star has been a recurring guest on SNL over the years.
“We never really worked together because… I mean, we’ve worked together while he was writing stuff for me for SNL, but we never actually got to act together.”
Johansson has been working on her first feature film as a director.
Eleanor the Great focuses on the unlikely friendship between 90-year-old Eleanor and her new 19-year-old friend.
