Scarlett Johansson Tries To Not Spoil Avengers While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

Oh God.

Oh God.

Why?

Why?

It's bad.

All right, go on.

What'd you say about the foreign press?

Hey, what's going on, everybody?

For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

And today we close out season eight with Scarlett Johansson.

Of course, you can catch her as Black Widow in Avengers Endgame, which is set to theaters on April 26th.

Scarlett Johansson, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much.

I know that you're a chicken wing connoisseur.

I do love chicken wings.

You've traveled the world trying them.

Do you like them spicy?

They're on my rider.

I think there's chicken wings.

and, like, LaCroix, and that's basically it.

What up, LaCroix?

There you go.

Although, I will say that hot wings and carbonated beverages, that's a bad combo.

Okay, so... All right, now you're just going for it.

Just dive in.

It's pretty good.

Nice and mild.

Yeah.

Not bad.

So these Avengers movies, they're really unprecedented in that there's these 300 million plus dollar budgets, dozens of A-listers in the cast, but then you'll shoot in places like the rural Scottish Highlands or these small towns in Southwest Ohio.

What do you do to pass the time?

Like do you hit up local karaoke joints or the wing spots or anything like that?

Well, in Atlanta, certainly try to hit up as many wing spots as possible.

That's the place to do it.

Oh yeah, for sure.

Definitely got to hit up T-Max every time I'm in Atlanta.

When we were in Scotland, obviously we were in Edinburgh, there's like tons of things to do.

We went to a lot of local bars and, you know, people got kind of crazy.

Couldn't find any wings though.

What's that all about?

I don't know.

The food in Scotland's a little...

That's not true.

That's not true?

I don't know.

Are you talking about, what is it, haggis?

Haggis, yeah.

I've had vegan haggis before, which was foul enough.

I don't know, when you actually put innards into the mix, that could not possibly get any better.

Yeah, I don't think you need to go too deep into that world.

It's a little sweet.

Mm-hmm.

It's got some kick though.

I'm such a wimp.

Yeah, it's a little sweet.

It's got a little kick, but not too bad.

Just a little bit.

So when you were cast to play Princess Mindy in the SpongeBob SquarePants movie, one thing that director Steven Hillenburg boasted about was your love of cartoons.

What was a bigger on-set trailer guilty pleasure for you, Brennan Stimpy or The Jerry Springer Show?

Um, oh gosh, I feel like those two are just like a perfect marriage, you know?

They're like, sort of enmeshed in a way.

Play off each other well?

Yeah.

Um, I'd say Jerry Springer.

I don't feel guilty about watching Ren and Sippy, but Jerry Springer, you just do.

Yeah, do you think that shows like Jerry Springer are staged or legit?

Like, I feel like an actress of your caliber would be able to see a phony performance.

I feel like it's kind of, I feel like it's pretty real.

Yeah.

Right?

I think so, too, because, like, people always say, it's phony, it's phony, but then I'm like, well, how does that guy with prison tats, like, act so well?

You know, like, it has to be real.

Like, that guy deserves, like, definitely a SAG award, I would say.

Maybe not an Oscar, but, like, fully a SAG award.

It's pretty good.

It should be working.

I feel like even if the story's, like, a little bit off, something's rotten in the state of Denmark, you know what I mean?

Something's a little rotten.

How you feeling?

I'm good.

You're good?

Yeah, see it's like Christmas in my mouth.

It's a little like, it's like explosive cheer in there.

Yeah, yeah.

For better or worse.

Oh God, the relatives are fighting right now.

Oh no.

Woo!

What's this one?

This is the Patio's Potion.

There's just no glamorous way to eat that.

Oh, it has carrot in it?

Grapefruit?

Yeah.

Weird.

It's a weird one.

So from your vegan banana chocolate chip muffins to your frittata recipe, the chef Scarlett mythology, it's bigger than just the kitchen.

Which movie set had better food, chef or he's just not that into you?

Because I think most people would think the former, but I've read that Drew Barrymore had that like chocolate fountain.

I forgot about that.

And the taco party all the time.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Well, I had like Roy try cooking for me on chef.

Like that was basically the best plate of,

that garlic pasta I'd ever had in my life.

And then, like, Favreau did it, and he did a pretty good job, too.

And I was like, oh, I'm just here, like, enactrating carbs for my job.

Like, this is really working for me.

Drew prides herself on providing the most sick catering, like, full chocolate fountain, like, raw bar.

It was, like, they were definitely bringing it.

Flower Films, they know how to feed people.

Well, speaking of eating carbs for work, are you ready to move on, Scarlett?

Um, yeah, I'm good.

I'm still hanging in there.

You know what's remarkable?

I have a compliment for your production team here.

We need those.

You need them desperately.

It's amazing how our wings are like the same looking wing on either side.

How did they, like, no two wings are alike, obviously, but like, man, they really came close.

Dom, she recognizes the small, big things.

Good job, Dom.

Good job.

All right, I'm procrastinating, clearly.

Are you a flats kind of guy or a drumstick person?

All things being equal, I'd rather have a drumstick because I feel like I'm a giant or something.

All things being equal.

Are you a turkey-leg person at Disney?

Definitely.

Wrapped in the tin foil and stuff.

What about you?

Yeah, I like the turkey leg, for sure.

I mean, it's just so indulgent and so, ooh, that's got some kick.

So in addition to your decades-long film resume, you've also taken your talents to the stage, even winning a Tony in 2010 for your revival of A View from the Bridge.

And I heard James Corden make an interesting point one time about Hollywood actors who have stage performance and their no-nonsense approach, because there's no way to be a diva if you have to do costume changes in a corridor backstage.

Does that resonate with you?

Like, do you think you can see each other in the wild?

You know, when I meet actors, especially that come from, like, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, they certainly have a method.

To me, that's more of, like, a flavor, I would say, that I can recognize.

Which is the tougher crowd to please, comic book obsessives or theater buffs?

Um... Hmm, that's an interesting question.

I guess...

Probably comic book obsessives.

Maybe because it's material that they've loved from childhood and so they have a certain kind of ownership over these characters or the storylines and you know how it is when you love something from being a kid and then it comes, you know, it's not the way that you imagined it to be.

Like, it doesn't mean you can't grow to love it, but it's, you know, you have feelings about it, so.

This sound is just so awful, I'm so sorry.

I'm like sucking it through my teeth.

I don't think I can taste the difference between any of these and if that one's spicy.

Right now it's just all like toasty in there.

I feel like you put the carriage before the horse on your description every time.

Right now I'm just tasting like, oh, that one's got a kick.

That was a little sweet too.

So typically on our Wing Five, we do a segment called Explain That Gram where we do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram, which would obviously be silly for you because you don't have an Instagram or any social media whatsoever.

In fact, you once told Ariana Huffington, I can't think of anything.

I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

Are you peripherally aware of what's going on on the internet or do you think maybe you've put up a wall that separates you completely from the world of memes and YouTube?

I exist online sometimes, I guess.

It's hard to like, my tongue feels like kind of thick.

Yeah, memes and stuff like that probably takes longer to get to me.

Sometimes the Avengers will like clue me in on stuff though too.

Yeah, have you ever heard of the Avengers-inspired Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history meme?

Have you ever heard of that?

No, but I'm interested.

What is this?

You want to crash course?

Yeah, what is it?

So it's a response to that Marvel statement, right?

So Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

And then you have the internet making counterpoints to that.

Okay.

So I want to show you a few examples, and I'm just curious.

All right.

Now I'm going to be like a babe in the woods, because I don't even know what you're about to show me right now.

Here.

Because I'm so, like, not...

I'm going to be your meme shaman here, okay?

Okay, all right.

So here's an example.

Marvel might say, Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

And then somebody on the internet... Is that Space Jams?

Right, would say, me, Space Jam, is like a counter to that.

Oh yeah, I got it.

You got it?

I understand the theme.

Actually, that's a good point.

I mean, Space Jams, like, that was basically everything.

Also, remember, like, it was Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Remember that?

Yeah, classic.

Remember that old Toontown?

Classic.

That was a great crossover.

It was hugely, like, that just opened the world to, like, Toon Land, and they were all there.

Yeah.

So take that, Space Jams.

How about this?

I said Space Jams like it's a lot of them.

Ew.

Is it like a pocket thing that there's a filling inside?

I think that they're just crossing over a breakfast pastry and then some Chef Boyardee.

I do love Chef Boyardee, though.

That was my jam.

A space jam.

How about this?

This is Henry VIII, Francis I. I think this is like the Anglo-French Treaty of 1514.

Too nerdy for a meme, or what do you think?

Sure, if it works for a...

Mark Morris at Longshanks 1307.

It works for you.

It works for me.

And then one more for you.

I know that you're a big Busta fan.

Here he is on stage with Mariah Carey at a Hot 97 concert.

That doesn't feel like that much of a crossover though.

Like that to me is like a perfect marriage.

It's not like the Pop-Tarts and like Chef Boyardee reference.

Like this I believe in.

You know what I mean?

I'm not sure.

All right, thus concludes the crash course.

Is that a meme?

This?

Or does a meme move?

No, that's a, what's that?

That's a- This is awesome.

Memes, do memes move?

Sorry.

Okay.

So this is the Adobo Loco Klohe Kid out of Hawaii.

Oh, it says ghost pepper.

No, I'm scared.

You know about ghost pepper.

Okay.

Oh God, I'm gonna try to put it in an area that doesn't have a lot.

That one's hot.

We're in the back half here, Scarlett.

It's getting real.

Oh no, that one's hot.

Oh shit.

So in March 2017, you hosted Saturday Night Live for the fifth time.

I actually am not back yet.

I think a piece came like back up.

Forever enshrining you in the show's prestigious five-timer club.

That's right.

Do you still have that commemorative jacket that Keenan gave you?

No, because I guess NBC Universal's really cheap.

You have to give that back.

I was like, why is he tearing it away from me?

They'll go, it's part of your costume change, but then I never saw it again.

Damn, that's spicy.

I need like a cup to catch my drool.

There's four more.

I don't want to do the bomb one.

You and everybody else.

Reading it, what's in here?

It has sodium benzoate in it.

I feel like that's bad.

That's the next one, isn't it?

No, no, we have one more.

We have one more before we get there.

All right, let's just eat the next one before you ask me a question.

I don't know what to say.

Let's just dive in.

Let's just dive in.

Wait, that one?

That one looks hot.

I'm scared.

I'm with you.

Mmm.

Oh, that one's tasty.

Uh oh.

What's gonna happen?

Maybe you're just on top of it.

I haven't fallen yet.

That's hot.

Oh my god, that's really hot.

Oh man.

Gotta hit that water.

I need a beer.

That's what I need, a giant cold beer.

Somebody go for a run.

Somebody go on a run for Scarlet.

You were described in a 2006 Esquire profile as a card-playing, magic-loving smartass.

Can you sit back and just enjoy a magic show, be wowed by it, or do you find yourself obsessing, thinking about how they do the trick?

Um, no.

I love magic.

Um, I love the Magic Castle.

My voice is changing.

Mmm.

Mmm.

I love the spectacle, the fantasy.

I love it all.

I'm not the person that will sit there and try to look for the strings attached or, you know, any of that stuff.

I totally, like, believe in it.

I am the good audience member.

You'll go along for the ride.

You'll go along for the ride.

Well, here, before we get to the bomb, I'd like to show you.

See, this is just a normal handkerchief.

Make it disappear.

Make the wing disappear.

Listen, I don't know how to make the wings disappear.

I don't know how to make the spice disappear.

Do it.

But I'm going to send this

To me?

To a realm.

And?

Where it'll never come back.

All right.

Hocus pocus.

Alakazam!

Where'd it go?

Where'd it go?

There it is.

I love it.

I just love it.

Look at the bottle.

It's just like, who buys them?

Just us, I think.

That looks like it has air.

Oh my God, there's one flake.

There's a flake.

I'm flaking off the flaky part.

You ate it already.

It's burning my nose.

I don't want the ball.

I don't want to swallow.

It's happening.

Oh, no.

Oh, it's bad.

Yeah.

Oh, it's so bad?

Mm-hmm.

It's really bad.

You're telling me.

You're telling me.

So starting a film like Avengers, you end up doing press all over the globe.

Oh, shit.

How, if at all, is entertainment news different overseas than here?

It can't get hotter than that.

We've reached the ceiling.

I think we're at maximum levels, to borrow a phrase from my friend Joji.

Oh God, it burns.

Oh my God, I don't know if I can recover.

You're gonna, you know, this is as bad as it's gonna be.

This is as bad as it's gonna get, and it'll have a half-life.

You'll get back.

You'll get back.

Hold my hand.

I got you.

We're in this together.

Okay.

Okay?

Uh-huh.

Hold my hand.

I got you.

It's so hot.

Are you experiencing this too?

I am.

I just know what to expect.

I've been here before.

Believe it or not, we've been doing this show for like eight seasons, 150 plus episodes.

Oh my God.

And this has been around for about a hundred of them.

I gotta walk around.

Take a lap, Scarlett.

You've had plenty of laps.

Plenty of laps.

What now?

Is there anything else to eat?

Is there bread?

Do we have some lifelines?

Do we have some lifelines?

What is there?

Dom's cooking something up.

What is it?

Always looking out.

Do I need tissue?

Is that hot sauce in my pan?

What is it?

We have some bread.

Rice?

We have some rice.

The rice is terrible.

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Why?

Why?

It's bad.

All right, go on.

What'd you say about the foreign press?

So, you know, when you do a film like Avengers, you have to do press all over the world.

How, if at all, is entertainment news different overseas?

Countries have different approaches to stuff.

I remember Sam Jackson and I, we did this movie called The Spirit together.

And we were in Germany.

We did this European tour.

It comes back.

Now it's on round two.

Oh, god.

I don't know whether that's going to make it better or worse.

What do you think?

Well, we're trying some stuff out here.

We have some bread.

We have some rice.

How much worse can it get?

Might as well just take a shot at some things.

beer kind of help?

Oh, at least like after a couple of these, I'll be feeling no pain until later.

When we were in Germany, the press was just really, really like serious.

Did I think it was just like the state of mind?

Like maybe we... Oh my God, it's bad.

Are we going on?

We are if you can.

What do I have to look forward to here?

Like, fuck the question you just asked me.

Listen, that's fair.

All I can think about is like, what is cut to gun?

Just surviving the show.

Listen, I understand that completely.

Stop being flowery.

Just tell me what the fuck to expect.

What's the next thing?

Tell me.

Here's what I think.

I think that if you can handle this hot sauce, there's no hot sauce in the world that can stop you, Scarlett Johansson.

Is that true?

That's true.

I'm gonna cry.

Yeah.

And it's not just the sauce.

God, this beer is gone.

I drank it so fast.

You did slam that beer.

Got another one on deck.

I think Dom might have tapped a keg.

Jesus Christ.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm going to take a tiny bite.

Yeah.

That was great.

It qualifies.

At this point, I may also be chewing my tongue.

I'm not sure.

So your career, it's so vast that there's no way to cover it all, just over 10 wings.

Let me just hit you with some loosies while you choke down the hellfire fear of this.

Which music video is more fun to shoot, Bob Dylan's When the Deal Goes Down or Justin Timberlake's What Goes Around Comes Around?

I'd probably say the Bob Dylan video because one of my really good best friends shot it, so I'd say that.

My friend Bennett.

Outside of your Marvel work, what's the Scarlett Johansson film that you think has the most intense cult following?

I would probably say Lost in Translation or oddly Lucy.

I've had like so many random different types of people from all walks of life tell me that they loved that movie, including Meryl Streep at the Oscars.

And I was like, what?

Like she turned around, she was like, oh my God, it's you.

I was like, hi, it's you.

And she was like, I, you know what movie I absolutely love of yours?

And I was like, what?

And she was like, Lucy.

I was like, oh.

Really?

She was like, I love that film.

I thought, okay, all right.

Not the one I would have, you know, I don't know.

You never know.

You never know.

I still don't know what that movie's about, but she does.

Which Scarlett Johansson movie is more underrated, Home Alone 3 or Eight-Legged Freaks?

Eight-Legged Freaks.

That last little bite still, it just, it still packed a punch.

Well, you know what?

You've handled the haymaker.

You've handled the roundhouse.

It's just one more round to go.

Oh, the last stab, that's right.

Because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing.

You don't have to if you don't want to.

Let me just smell it.

Yeah.

It smells good.

Thank you.

We actually make this one.

Yeah.

I've seen the show before.

Okay.

I'm going to put it like that.

All right.

Because the way you did it is cray.

And then I'm going to dippity-doo.

Yep.

All right.

Cheers.

Cheers, Scarlett.

All right.

Why are you shuffling?

I'm just staying on top of it too, you know?

I don't have the rice.

I don't have the white bread.

I don't have the beer.

I'll take it.

I feel like it helps.

It may be an O'Doul's, but I feel like it helps.

You know what?

It does help.

I mean, I'm sure.

Is it an O'Doul's?

All right, Scarlett Johansson, here we are at the top of Spice Mountain, season eight.

It's a tip-top tippity-toop.

The tip-top of Spice Mountain, yodeling from the summit.

And you know what?

It's the last wing here of season eight.

And when you're doing Avengers, every interview, it's like tiptoeing through a minefield.

It's like walking on a tightrope.

The fans, they're so rabid.

They need those conspiracy theories.

They need those spoilers.

And while you're distracted by the hot sauce, we're gonna take our shot, but we're gonna play fair.

Okay.

Do not answer any of these questions.

Got it.

You know, we're just gonna look at your face and decide whether you're giving us a tell or if you're just reacting to hot sauce.

And we'll be able to know because this is always a truth serum, okay?

Captain America will die.

Goose the Cat will ultimately be the key to saving everybody.

Thanos gets tricked into the Quantum Realm by Ant-Man, and then the Avengers beat him up and leave him there.

Loki isn't dead because he stabbed Thanos with his left hand instead of his right, so it's obvious that we're just seeing a projection.

And then finally, Thanos isn't bad.

He's just under the evil spell of the Mind Stone.

I honestly do not know what those last three things you said were because my mouth is on just, it's like,

Just full of fire.

Well, you know what?

I think that you're under the spell of the hot sauce stone, but it doesn't matter, Scarlet, because you just went 10 chicken wings up, 10 chicken wings down.

Oh, my God.

And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you, my friend.

This camera, this camera, this camera.

Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

Like, right at this very moment?

I'm feeling pretty vulnerable right now.

I'm not gonna lie.

I'm here on the Avengers Endgame press tour and I already feel pretty broken down.

And I'm not gonna lie, this may be the straw that broke the camel's back.

So go see the Avengers Endgame.

And yeah.

And that's it.

Those are my final moments.

So you just witness them here.

Good job, Scarlett.

Good job.

Thank you.

Oh, God.

Thanks, you guys.

Thank you so much.

Colin, Colin, Colin.

I know you are feeling it.

Oh, it's so bad.

I know.

Thank you so much.

You do such a great job.

That fucked up my hit.

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