Black Widow's Scarlett Johansson has been battling Disney execs over the money she believes she is owed for her solo MCU debut. She launched her lawsuit in July, alleging that the decision to release her film in theaters and on Disney+ at the same time was a breach of contract and changed the amount of money she was owed for her role in the film.
The whole situation has gotten ugly and actress Jamie Lee Curtis has jumped into the fray to defend Johansson.
Curtis wrote a piece for Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list, which includes Johansson. In her article, published Wednesday, she launches a powerful defense of the superheroine that includes at least one f-bomb:
"I always felt a kinship with Scarlett Johansson because she was born on my birthday, in the year I was married," Curtis starts. Johansson also portrayed Janet Leigh, Curtis' mother, in the 2012 movie Hitchcock which she acknowledges. Then she starts talking about Black Widow.
"I recently watched her own the screen as the Black Widow, who exacts revenge on a powerful figure who manipulates (emphasis on man) women to fight for him," she wrote. "And then I saw her brilliant response to a real-life manipulation (same emphasis), when she filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the studio, alleging its decision to release the film simultaneously in theatres and on streaming cost her substantial losses in pay."
The manipulation Curtis is referring to is the response Disney had to the lawsuit against them, in which they imply Johansson wanted everyone to go to the movie theater, get COVID and die.
The company told The Independent, "There is no merit whatsoever to this filing. The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Disney has fully complied with Ms. Johansson’s contract and furthermore, the release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has significantly enhanced her ability to earn additional compensation on top of the $20m she has received to date."
Johansson's agent said of the statement that Disney was attacking her character and trying to portray her as "insensitive to the global COVID pandemic, in an attempt to make her appear to be someone they and I know she isn't."
In August, Disney moved to force Johansson into private arbitration, because the public battle over the situation isn't a good look. Even without a pandemic, the question over how actors should be compensated when massive platforms release blockbusters online. Corporations don't want them to be making the same kind of money that was guaranteed in a better time, before online content took over.
Curtis, however, is firmly on Johansson's side.
"Whether as an assassin with a conscience, an actor with an emotional center or, having just given birth to her second child, a fierce mother, the message is clear: Don't f'k with this mama bear," she concluded.
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