{"id":675260,"date":"2026-11-05T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675260\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:04:11","slug":"scarlett-johansson-says-the-batman-ii-role-was-hard-to-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675260\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson Says ‘The Batman II’ Role Was “Hard To Crack”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough Scarlett Johansson<\/a> is no stranger to a big-budget superhero flick, she found herself in uncharted territory when making the jump from Marvel to DC.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Oscar nominee admitted she had \u201ca lot of existential angst\u201d on the set of The Batman<\/a>: Part II, which she explained was \u201chard to figure out\u201d as she joined the cast of the Matt Reeves sequel.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt gave me a lot of existential angst, for some reason,\u201d Johansson told Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cIt was very hard to figure out. I don\u2019t know why, whether it was just the role or it was just where I am in my life, but it was just hard to crack it. That\u2019s all I can say about it. It was a tough role in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn May, Johansson joined the cast<\/a> of Reeves\u2019 sequel to The Batman (2022), in which she reportedly plays Gilda Dent, the wife of Gotham district attorney Harvey Dent (Sebastian Stan).<\/p>\n

\n\tJames Gunn previously revealed last July that the script for The Batman: Part II was finished<\/a>, following several delays. In August, a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s shareholders revealed that filming on the sequel would begin filming in the spring<\/a>, with the release date recently pushed<\/a> to Feb. 18, 2028.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn May, Reeves shared some test shots<\/a> of Pattinson back in the bat suit as they transformed Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK into Gotham City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to a big-budget superhero flick, she found herself in uncharted territory when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,8387,20418,171693,19893],"class_list":["post-675260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-the-batman","tag-the-batman-ii","tag-the-batman-part-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}