I still can’t with Scarlett Johansson’s Elsa Pataky styling. Why did you do this to your hair, ScarJo?! Oh well… it will grow out. As you can imagine, the press tour for The Avengers: Age of Ultron has begun in earnest. For the next month, it’s going to be endless premieres, press events, interviews and photo-ops with all involved. It was also just announced that Scarlett will be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 2 (Ultron comes out the previous day). It will be ScarJo’s fourth time hosting the show – she keeps getting asked back because (to her credit) she’s really good on SNL. She’s funny and she’s good at impressions and accents.

Meanwhile, there are a bunch of new interviews with ScarJo, so here are some assorted quotes that I found interesting:

Her stunt work while pregnant: “I don’t think you’re allowed to ride a motorcycle when you’re so pregnant, but I did. I did all of the motorcycle riding. I embarrassingly rode some sort of mechanical-bull type of motorcycle, which goes nowhere and doesn’t look cool, at all. But, I had some very professional and amazing motor-cross morphing done that makes Black Widow look like a total badass.”

The experience of motherhood: ” I’m such a newbie at this. I always really hate it when actors or people in the spotlight make giant grandiose statements about parenthood because it’s so, so personal. And I don’t profess to know anything more about parenting than anybody else.”

How baby Rose has changed her life: “I have a greater responsibility now so that will definitely affect my schedule. Before (Rose), I just made the choices that were affecting me but now I’m responsible for somebody else. Eventually I will have to work less and it might even make me more discerning. We’ll see, but I think having any kind of huge life-changing event happen to you, such as having children, and it’s such a different life now in the best possible way, is very, very inspiring. I think it will hopefully enrich my work as well as my understanding of myself. That’s the hope anyway, you never know.”

[From Daily Telegraph & People Magazine]

I like ScarJo more for saying that she wouldn’t be making any “grandiose statements” about motherhood. Because that’s what so many celebrity moms do, especially the judgy-mother-mafia of LA. Scarlett loves her baby and enjoys motherhood. Beyond that, do we really need to hear about Rose’s magical bowel movements or how motherhood aligns the cosmos? No, we do not.

As for Scarlett riding a motorcycle – I was confused on that point? Is she saying that she rode a motorcyle for-real in some scenes and in other scenes, she just rode the fake-cycle?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN.