On the set of 'Black Widow' - befores & afters

10 “Black Widow” Cast Facts For Anyone Who Loves Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, And The Rest Of The Actors

1. Scarlett Johansson said she was anxious and intimidated to meet Florence Pugh for the first time. Meanwhile, Florence was just as nervous to meet Scarlett.Glamour / youtube.com

Florence said she’d just gotten off a plane a few hours before and didn’t have time to shower before meeting Scarlett, and she said she was probably “smelly.”

ADVERTISEMENT2. David Harbour ended up losing about 60 pounds during the shoot just so he could film the Red Guardian’s flashback scenes.Jay Maidment / Marvel

He told the New York Times, “I had grown the beard and the hair for Stranger Things, and I was like, ‘Let’s use the weight.’ So I started eating even more. I got up to 280 pounds, and I loved it. I said to the first AD [assistant director], ‘Listen, we have to shoot the flashback stuff at the end so that by the time we shoot the flashback, I’ll lose the weight and I’ll be thin.’ And he was like, ‘You’ll never be thin.’ I was like, ‘Yes I will, man.’ And I lost like 60 pounds through the shooting. The first stuff we shot was at the prison, so that belly that’s coming at you, that’s all real belly. And then as we shot, I started to lose weight.”

3. While Rachel Weisz was filming in London, her husband, Daniel Craig, was actually filming No Time to Die in the same studio.Jay Maidment / Marvel

00:0001:364. Scarlett found out about Black Widow’s death while she was on the phone with Kevin Feige one day. She joked about reacting pretty heartbroken but calm at first, but then she cried in the shower later.Courtesy Marvel

5. Scarlett had a little car she’d ride around the set in, and she decorated it with a “big furry spider,” aka a black widow.

He said, “I do think when we started shooting, we sort of fell into our role, and that family dynamic of us really started to emerge naturally — Scarlett being the oldest daughter, [and] Florence being the younger baby.”

7. The suit with the backpack that Black Widow wears in the film was actually so hard to move in that Scarlett had to take it off just so she could sit, talk, and lift her arms.Marvel Studios / Courtesy Marvel Studios

ADVERTISEMENT8. David’s Red Guardian costume was just as uncomfortable because his head was “crushed inside” the helmet.Marvel

David joked, “It didn’t smell very good at the end of the day.”

9. David was actually the one who decided “American Pie” should be Yelena’s comfort song.@everanderson / Via instagram.com

He told Insider, “I felt there’s gotta be something a little more profound, and I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if, back in America, when she was little and was terrified, having been taken from her family, the Red Guardian would put her in the car and drive around and play ‘American Pie’? So from then on, she tells Daddy to put in the tape.'”