Avengers: Endgame's Scarlett Johansson, aka Black Widow, has said that it was a "huge relief" when Marvel finally added more female stars to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Speaking to Christine Lampard on Lorraine, the 34-year-old actress said making previous movies was a "major testosterone festival" before the likes of Brie Larson and Danai Gurira joined the cast.

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She said: “Oh yeah, it's a huge relief for me because, you can only imagine, a decade ago when we started all this, it was a major testosterone festival. It was me and the dudes and the locker room banter.

"I'd had it, by the time [Elizabeth Olsen]'s character was introduced, Scarlet Witch, and then Cobie [Smulders] came in – and she was a part of SHIELD, Maria Hill.

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"I was so thankful to have two other women in the cast and we would just like to cling to each other, and now the universe is expansive and we've got so many great actors, Danai, Brie, many now – it's a huge relief."

Captain Marvel marked the company's first solo female-fronted superhero movie in the MCU, and now Scarlett's solo Black Widow film is in the works too, which will have Marvel's first solo female director.

So far, the Black Widow movie has cast The Handmaid's Tale's O-T Fagbenle, Rachel Weisz, Fighting with My Family's Florence Pugh and Stranger Things' David Harbour, with production said to be getting under way in London in June .

Meanwhile, Avengers: Endgame is imminent and director duo Anthony and Joseph Russo issued a warning to fans to keep spoilers secret in the coming weeks.

Scarlett described making the movie as "bittersweet", while Paul Rudd has revealed he had to find out the snap twist in Infinity War early.

Avengers: Endgame will be released on Thursday, April 25 in the UK and on Friday, April 26 in the US.

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