There’s been several interviews with Robert posted after his appearance at Comic-Con.  Here is what he had to say about Scarlett’s character Black Widow:

Question: Is there a love triangle between Tony and Pepper, and Tony and the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson)?

Downey: We essentially started off saying it’s a love triangle, and then we realized that love triangle is done in these superhero movies, all the time. What we wanted to do was something just a little bit freakier than that, and I believe we have succeeded. Black Widow is a great character because she is not what she appears to be. It was a great opportunity. I don’t even know if it’s so much a love triangle. Pepper is exactly what she appears to be, except there’s a lot more going on under the surface, and that’s brought to bear, this time.

Over 60 new photos (mostly HQ) of Scarlett at Comic-Con have been added to the gallery.  I’m still searching my various sources so more could be added later.

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- Public Events: Events in 2009 > Iron Man 2 Panel at Comic-Con

Also, MoviesOnline posted a fantastic lengthy interview with Scarlett.  A short quote is below and you can view the interview in its entirety after the cut.

Question: There is no geek within you?

Scarlett Johansson: Certainly there is a major geek within me. Actually, just kind of right on the surface. When I saw the first one it was because my Mom called me and said ‘Did you see “Iron Man”?’ I was like ‘Iron Man’? ‘I would see it but it’s not really my kind of thing.’ I thought if my Mom is telling me to see ‘Iron Man’ it’s got to be great. It’s not like my Mom is a comic book fan. When I went to see it I was just so blown away. I had never seen anything like that before in this genre.

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Scarlett Johansson wants to direct her own major movie soon.

She proudly showed off her directorial debut – These Vagabond’s Shoes – at the LA Shorts Fest 09, and she gushed: “It was exciting to be on that side of the camera.

“I’m hoping it will lead to a feature.”

The actress also described her first experience of directing as an “amuse-bouche”.

“I really got to work with the best of the best but in a really short and sweet kind of way. It was the perfect first taste,” she said.

And despite rising to fame in front of cameras, Scarlett confessed she’s hankered after trying out directing since she was a child.

“It’s something that I’ve always wanted to do ever since I was probably 12 years old – it was very exciting for me to sample it,” she said.

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I’ve added over 200 more photos of Scarlett at last night’s LA Shorts Fest including some from the Q&A session after the viewing.  Since my posting last night, I have also learned that Scarlett’s dress was designed by Prada.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Events: Events in 2009 > Los Angeles Shorts Fest: Red Carpet
- Events: Events in 2009 > Los Angeles Shorts Fest: Inside

I look like a street, punky girl,” Scarlett Johansson tells me. “It’s that edgy Debbie-Harry- meets-Marianne-Faithfull look.”

Certainly the new images of Johansson for the autumn/winter 2009 Mango campaign, which hits the streets today, are a world away from the Scarlett that we’ve become used to.

Gone is the preppie, all-American girl of Lost in Translation, or the noir heroine of The Black Dahlia.

Johansson shot the ad campaign for the Spanish high-street fashion store with über-cool photographer Mario Sorrenti.

Hair styled in a tousled blonde bob, we see Scarlett wearing leather and leopardskin, super-skinny jeans and a black bra.

You wouldn’t mess with that girl. “She’s not a waif,” says Johansson proudly.

She takes over as the face of Mango from Penelope Cruz (who has fronted it for the past two years) and jokes she already knew a lot about the clothes from working with Cruz on Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona.

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A couple days ago, I mentioned that there were some rumors floating around the internet that Scarlett would be at this year’s Comic-Con.  Well, the official site has the full schedule listed and the way I read it, Scarlett will not be attending.

4:00-5:00 Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment: Iron Man 2— Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the sequel to the blockbuster film based on the legendary Marvel superhero Iron Man. Directed by Jon Favreau, Iron Man 2 stars Robert Downey Jr. Joining Downey in the cast are Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Clark Gregg, John Slattery, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson.

To me, that is nothing more than a cast list and not a list of who will be attending the presentation.  I could be wrong though.

Sheri from lashortsfest.com sent me a follow-up email with a few more details about Scarlett’s upcoming appearance.  This is an excellent opportunity for those of you in the Los Angeles area.

Some more info on this. Tickets to opening night are open to the public.
The theater only holds 230 so there will be close proximity to the celebs
and they are participating in Q&A after. Ticket also includes an
afterparty which we hope the celebs will attend.

Tickets are available through our site www.lashortsfest.com for $30. Buy a
ticket and be part of Scarlett’s world premiere screening of her short
These Vagabond Shoes.

There are also some rumors floating around the web that Scarlett could be a part of the Iron Man 2 panel at this year’s Comic-Con.  I will keep you all posted as I learn more.

Austin360 posted a short interview with Pete Yorn.  It’s mostly about his current album Back and Forth but he did have a comment about his upcoming album with Scarlett and he hints at a possible tour (of sorts).

Is it fair to say your writing is more direct on the new songs? In the past, I’d maybe probably protect myself more by being vague. There was a conscious decision to make this more simple and straightforward.

Did that spill over into writing your upcoming album (‘Break Up’) with Scarlett (Johansson)? That was more like a flurry. I was trying to figure out how to get some female perspective in my songs.

Will you two tour together when that album’s out this fall? We’ll do a couple events. I think we’ll go to Europe as well.

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While working together  on ‘The Spirit’ Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson got to talking about the world’s bee crisis. Apparently, the issue was really affecting Scarlett because she couldn’t stop talking about it. But Samuel listenend.

“Scarlett was always talking about how the bees were dying and the planet was going to die. I was telling her that people keep saying the bees are dying because they want to charge us more for fruit and vegetables,” he explained.
“So she kept complaining about the bees, we had the same dressing room. ‘Sam, the bees are dying, we need to do something’, so I said, ‘Ok, what I’m going to do is buy you a beehive as your weeding gift’. “And she thought I was kidding.
So once they got married, and when the weather was right, I sent my sister out to a bee farm, we got about five pounds of bees. We got them some bee suits and hats as well.”

LOL on this, Samuel L. Jackson is the coolest guy!

I received an official email from the people at lashortsfest.com with some information about Scarlett’s upcoming appearance.

Just wanted to see if you would put out the word that Scarlett Johansson will be opening the 13th Annual LA Shorts Fest July 23-31 in Hollywood. She will be premiering her short film These Vagabond Shoes starring Kevin Bacon and will be participating in a Q&A after the screening. Tickets to opening night are $30 and available July 20 at www.laemmle.com. Come out and support Scarlett.

In site news, I’m aware that the gallery is down.  There seems to be a server issue with databases and my host will get it fixed as soon as possible.  I’m sorry for any inconvenience.