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[(Anonymous)]

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How Scarlett Johansson Got in Superhero Shape
As the sexy Black Widow in The Avengers, she makes wearing a catsuit look easy
Kristen Aldridge By Kristen Aldridge
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If there’s anyone who knows how to rock a catsuit, it’s Scarlett Johansson. Reprising her role as the butt-kicking Black Widow in The Avengers (in theatres today), the sexy superhero makes wearing a body-hugging, skin-tight leather costume look easy.

Make no mistake though; playing the part of a fearless, fit action hero takes a lot of work. The 27-year-old actress endured long hours of intense training to get ready for her physically demanding role, filled with a rollercoaster of stunts, fights, and hand-to-hand combat.

But behind every superhero (in the movies, anyway) is their superstar stunt-double! Enter Heidi Moneymaker, who has some of the most impressive stunt credits in the biz (with a name like that, we're not surprised!). From The Avengers and Iron Man 2 to Cowboys and Aliens, Mission: Impossible III, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, there isn’t an action sequence she can’t conquer.

“I've been working with Scarlett since Iron Man 2. She is one of my favorite actresses I have ever worked with,” Moneymaker says. “She works very hard and picks things up really fast."

So just how did Moneymaker get Johansson in such awesome shape? We got the scoop from the talented thrill-seeker herself on her action star workout, the craziest stunt in the flick, and life as one of Hollywood’s hottest stunt doubles.

SHAPE: First off, congrats on all your amazing accomplishments! Tell us about how you got into doing stunt work.
Heidi Moneymaker (HM): I had a scholarship for gymnastics to UCLA and I met a couple ex-gymnasts turned stuntmen. After seeing the exciting things they were doing, I knew I wanted to be a stuntwoman. I started training martial arts and various other skills, sent out my resume and demo, and as luck would have it, booked a job doubling Drew Barrymore in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

SHAPE: Who are some of the other celebs you’ve been a stunt double for?
HM: I've doubled Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Kerri Russell, Emily Browning, Michelle Rodriguez, Fergie (The Black Eyed Peas), Julie Benz, Jaime Pressly, Saoirse Ronan, and believe it or not, Frankie Muniz!

SHAPE: What was it like working with Scarlett Johansson for The Avengers, and what type of training did you do with her?
HM: Scarlett was finishing filming We Bought a Zoo when we first started prepping for The Avengers, so we only had about five or six weeks to train before we started filming. Luckily, Scarlett is such a professional and works incredibly hard, so she learned all her fights and performed them with perfect execution. We would also take advantage of any time we had free during filming to sneak in a training session. She was trained in "hand-to-hand" fighting as well as some weapons training. She had many fights in the film, some one on one and some were multi-person fights.

SHAPE: What was the craziest stunt you did in the film as her stunt double?
HM: None of them were too "crazy,” but I did get pulled through a window while it shattered due to an explosion and landed about 10 to 15 feet below.

SHAPE: How many stunts was Scarlett able to do on her own?
HM: Scarlett did a lot of her fights, and any time she had the opportunity to try a stunt, she did! She always went the extra mile. She truly commits to her role as the Black Widow.

for here (http://www.shape.com/celebrities/interviews/how-scarlett-johansson-got-superhero-shape).

I mean, personally, I never noticed the stunt double so maybe that's something you pick up on more than other people idk. But I think it's a lot about external pressures on women to look sexy in catsuits or skimpy costumes that leads to them thinning down instead of toning up. I wouldn't blame the actresses.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this comment made me realize I really wanted her to play a superhero, but it's a terrible thing to say. It's like those stupid real women have curves arguments that ignore the fact that women have all different body types.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Yeah, it burned away according to: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series_-_Season_1

[ariakas]

Maybe she put a little more effort into it for the Avengers film, but in Iron Man 2 it was fucking brutal. The whole corridor fight scene (basically, the crux of the character's entire combat role) is the stunt double with shop-face if she's so much as lifting a leg. If seeing how awful that looked made her pour more effort into training, I'd be delighted.

And I never said I blamed the actresses. If it were a case of women choosing to be vain when there were other choices, that would be one thing. But this is pretty clearly a case of what the industry/media demand, and the actress don't get a "bulk up for the role" option.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Sorry that comment got messed up. This was the relevant part of the italicized bit:

SHAPE: What was it like working with Scarlett Johansson for The Avengers, and what type of training did you do with her?
HM: Scarlett was finishing filming We Bought a Zoo when we first started prepping for The Avengers, so we only had about five or six weeks to train before we started filming. Luckily, Scarlett is such a professional and works incredibly hard, so she learned all her fights and performed them with perfect execution. We would also take advantage of any time we had free during filming to sneak in a training session. She was trained in "hand-to-hand" fighting as well as some weapons training. She had many fights in the film, some one on one and some were multi-person fights.

SHAPE: What was the craziest stunt you did in the film as her stunt double?
HM: None of them were too "crazy,” but I did get pulled through a window while it shattered due to an explosion and landed about 10 to 15 feet below.

SHAPE: How many stunts was Scarlett able to do on her own?
HM: Scarlett did a lot of her fights, and any time she had the opportunity to try a stunt, she did! She always went the extra mile. She truly commits to her role as the Black Widow.

[pts]

Sounds like you're a gamist or a simulationist playing a narrativist game. No wonder you're frustrated.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, I've only seen IM2 once and it was late at night so I hadn't noticed.

Sorry about misinterpreting your second comment. I think it was the "their" that threw me off.

Re: Sort of Inspired by #5

[(Anonymous)]

Late to the party to think fondly of all the Chuck/Jake 2.0/Kyle XY crossover plotbunnies I had in my head. May they rest in peace, along with the Wonderfalls/Pushing Daisies fusion BUT WITH ALIENS

Re: Attitude towards retcons?

[intrigueing]

This is a really good way of looking at it! I'm not sure I 100% agree with it, because some building retcons are irritating too (eg, sometimes you WANT some things to stay vague and scattered), but overall I really like this idea.

Re: Alternatively...

[(Anonymous)]

Same for me, really.

My boyfriend even commented that Gothel's song could have been sung by my mother - the difference is that my mother is genuinely terrified something will happen to me (so it would have had less cannibals and quicksand and more drunk/reckless drivers).

However, knowing she is overprotective, she tries to curb those instincts.

Re: Sort of Inspired by #5

[kaijinscendre]

Pushing Daisies is the one with the person that touches people and they die?

Re: Who needs to pirate when you have the right addon

[(Anonymous)]

It is. People in the UK have to pay fees that support the BBC. Which is why the content they may then stream on BBC iPlayer isn't actually "free". So yeah, by-passing the region-check is stealing in that you don't pay the BBC for their online content.

[(Anonymous)]

If everyone else likes it, then maybe it's time to just find a different group? There's nothing wrong with this.

[straycatblues]

I'm "guilty" of it,too.I'd love to pay for the things I love but in my country it takes a huge time before the shows air,sometimes they don't air at all (for example,while season 8 of SPN has already aired in America,here the only channel airing it is at season 5).

[(Anonymous)]

Yanno I agree in a way. Gothel had to do something right to have Rapunzel turn out not completely mal-adjusted. Even if the "love" she showed was just to control Rapunzel into staying around she still got her anything she wanted to keep here there. She was willing to walk for 3 days to get her paint. Sometimes that's a big part of parenting. I give you candy. You stop crying.

To Rapunzel she was a good mother until she realized she had been kidnapped as a baby a had been told lies about people's nature. Everything in between there was good enough for her to reach out to her when she fell.

[(Anonymous)]

MTE X)

[straycatblues]

Yeah,they look alright to me.Some of the wigs look bad sometimes,but it's a TV show with dragons!You can buy that,but not the wigs?

Re: Not sure if troll...

[(Anonymous)]

Why is a female superhero only realistic to you if they have bulging muscles? Not all bodies are the same type, duh.
If you saw me you would probably think I looked like any other bland chick out on the street. You wouldn't know how many forms of Kung Fu I have knowledge in. But as soon as I block your attack and use it against you to throw you onto your back - you will know :P

Re: basically if it's novel length and contains gay sex

[tyger66]

My all-time favorite is Paraselenic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3532054/1/Paraselenic

Also there's the big "classics", Abandon and Reclaim: http://archiveofourown.org/series/17688

Abandon starts off....bad. But before long it becomes awesome, so put up with the awkward dialog at first. It also features some of the most cliche shit you will ever see, but I can't help but love it.

Abandon clocks in at over 200K words, too. Super epic-length.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm laughing so hard at this fail of an allegory.

[(Anonymous)]

So basically, you can't actually refute my argument so you have to resort to an ad hominem attack instead.

Re: Cutting yourself.

[tyger66]

Oh man this is the perfect description of me during my cutting years.

Seriously troubled and simultaneously a huge attention-whore.

[(Anonymous)]

... And now I'm forever going to read it as 'ah, sod off'.

[(Anonymous)]

You do realize that most acrobats are small, and lithe right? People don't necessarily have to be muscular to be effective fighters, either. Some people are more muscular than others, but generally you have to be consuming a ton of lean protein to get super cut to begin with.