Scarlett Johansson (and the Avengers) Have Work-Anxiety Dreams Just Like the Rest of Us
Given how much time and energy Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans and their Avengers family spend immersed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you might think their big-screen alter egos would follow them to bedtime. So do they ever dream about saving the world as Black Widow, Thor, or Captain America, respectively? They wish.
“I have horrifying nightmarish work dreams, but those are just my own insecurities,” Johansson told Yahoo Movies in our Avengers: Age of Ultron interview round-p, which you can watch above. “I can’t remember the last time I had like an espionage dream — though that sounds much better than my actual dreams.”
Evans can relates to Johansson’s plight — as can probably everyone else in the world: “Aren’t those the worst, where you have dreams that you’re at work?”, he says. “Nothing fun, nothing crazy, you’re not flying… You’re just at work. You wake up like, ‘Ugh, I just spent my whole night at work.”
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Hemsworth doesn’t don Thor’s red cape in his dreams, but he also knows what it’s like to take your menial responsibilities into dreamland. “The only work dreams I’ve ever had is being a waiter, taking orders back in the day” he said, referring to his pre-Hollywood profession. “But not this. This is fun… I feel like the stuff you take home is usually because it’s exhausting in some way, like waitering, and taking abuse from people.”
The work anxiety dreams even haunt the man behind the action, writer-director Joss Whedon. “I do not have Avengers dreams,” he said. “I have dreams that I can still fix that thing that’s wrong [in the movie].”
Avengers: Age of Ultron opens everywhere Friday. Watch Joss Whedon narrate a 'sexy’ scene between Hulk and Black Widow:
