Scarlett Johansson Turned Down Studio’s Request to Join Instagram for ‘Jurassic World’ Publicity, Says Black Widow Is Dead but Marvel Fans ‘Don’t Want to Believe It’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/scarlett-johansson-instagram-jurassic-world-rebirth-press-1236333575/

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  1. > “I mean, even today, I got an email from Universal [Pictures], and they’re like, ‘Hey, would you consider joining Instagram in tandem with the release of “Jurassic World: Rebirth?”‘ Johansson said. “I get a lot of pressure to join social media. [It does make me think]… is there a way where I could do this and stay true to who I am? It didn’t feel like I could.”

    > “Natasha is dead. She is dead. She’s dead. Okay? They just don’t want to believe it,” Johansson said of Marvel fans. “They’re like, ‘But she could come back!’ Look, I think the balance of the entire universe is held in her hand. We’re going to have to let her go. She saved the world. Let her have her hero moment.”

  2. She’s completely right. But it’s hard to take character deaths seriously when so many have died and came back, there’s infinity stones, alternate universes, and time travel. It honestly kind of ruins the MCU for me.

  3. So… wait, this entire story is” entitled Millionaire refuses to do advertisement and press to help sell the product she is paid well to do”… wow… how arrogant.

  5. I don’t want to believe it. I loved her character.

  6. If Tony Stark and Gamora can come back, there is no problem with Natasha Romanov coming back.

  7. 😝😝

    So many people waking up to the fact that their favorite celebrities aren’t on social media because they want to be but because it’s part of their job. They have to hustle interest in themselves and their projects.

    Johansson is one of the very few successful and wealthy enough to be able to just say no to that avenue of promotion.

  8. Her stance on social media and the fact she’s been a huge JP fan since childhood when she first saw the movie makes me love her even more

  10. “Natasha” is dead, but multiverse variant “Batasha” is alive and well and will be joining Secret Wars I bet haha

  11. She looks nothing like she used to look. She and Lindsay Lohan now have interchangeable faces.

  12. They screwed her over for the Black Widow movie

  13. She doesn’t want to join instagram because she doesn’t want to have to manage a sea of angry comments any time she does literally anything LOL. Can’t blame her.

  14. Social media killed the movie star though. Ask anyone 18 and younger and they all know social media ‘influencers’ and are on X consuming (likely) a certain someone’s countries dis & mis info. These kids live in a fake world where being a right wing bigot is ‘cool’ and being a compassionate person is ‘woke’.

  15. I think she’s just done with the role. Multiverse stuff already proves we can easily get some version of black widow back

  16. How does Jurassic Park facilitate the return of Black Widow?

  18. Black Widow was brought back in What If? Season 2.

    Are we pretending that’s not canon because it’s animated? Cause it’s canon. She’s already back.

  19. Reporter: Jurassic World?

    Scarlett: BLACK WIDOW IS DEAD!!!!!

  21. Colin,” …but you can still get into and out of the outfit right?”

  22. Black Widow can stay dead. It was a C level character and ScarJo played it basic.

  23. Can you image if social media was invented decades earlier?

    “Mr Pacino, when’s Godfather 2 coming out?? Is it true about the leak of De Niro playing your father?!”

    and

    “Mary Poppins Sequel cancelled at Walt Disney Studios due to inflammatory portrayal of British by Dick Van Dyke. Julie Andrews states “Dyke made me uneasy on set”.”

    and

    “Micheal J Fox parkinson’s condition on display in Back to the Future! Here are 5 scenes that show it!”

    It would have been brutal!!

  24. And Black Widow’s death was a noble one. Let the character rest.

  25. Can we get a Black Widow/Lucy crossover?

    I’d watch that

  26. As a Marvel Comics fan I have lost count of how many times my favorite characters have died, only to be reborn. Was it a fake out, is it a clone, does it really matter? No. Because they all become the better version of themselves in the end. They may level the Black Widow up and give her a sexy new body in the form of a modern day sex kitten like Colin Jost, but the Black Widow is not dead. Unless Colin Jost does the unthinkable.

  27. That’s exactly what someone who wanted you to think they were dead would say

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