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Scarlett Johansson bonded with Chris Evans over his "down and dirty" stories on set.
The 29-year-old actress stars as the Black Widow alongside the Hollywood hunk who plays the titular superhero in 'Captain America: The Winter Solider', and she enjoyed quizzing him on personal tales since he's a "great storyteller" when they had time to spare during shoots.
Talking on the Radio 1 'Breakfast Show' to Nick Grimshaw, she said: "If you're waiting for a bridge to explode [on set] .. guess Chris and I usually... Chris is a great storyteller. I wanna get the down and dirty stories - tell me about all your friends in Boston, what's the most disgusting thing you've ever seen in person - you know that kind of stuff."
Grimshaw asked: "What is the most disgusting thing he's seen in person?"
She replied: "I can't say that on this radio show, it's too early in the morning for that."
Although Johansson remained coy about Evans' stories she admits the time between shoots often got "tedious".
She said: "At times it is [intense]... a lot of these huge sequences take four to five days, or sometimes two weeks to shoot. For instance, all the stuff that we do on the overpass when the Winter Solider is finally revealed to us, that stuff took a couple of weeks, then they had to close a couple of freeways. A lot of it is waiting around for things to be re-set up and explosion to be handled properly. So it can be a bit tedious."

Arnold Schwarzenegger will play an ageing T-800 in 'Terminator: Genesis'.
The 66-year-old actor and former bodybuilder - who was catapulted to fame after starring in 1984's 'The Terminator' - will reprise his role as the titular cyborg in the forthcoming film and insists different models will be used to show him growing old.
He told MTV: "The way that the character is written, it's a machine underneath. It's this metal skeleton but above that is human flesh, and the Terminator's flesh ages, just like any other human being's flesh.
"Maybe not as fast, but it definitely ages."
The hunk was unable to feature in 'Terminator Salvation' in 2009 because of his commitments as the Governor of California but is thrilled to hit the big screen and be part of the franchise once again.
He added: "I did say, 'I'll be back', so now I'm back and it's going to be really terrific."
'Game of Thrones' actress Emilia Clarke, Spartacus' Jai Courtney and 'Lawless' actor Jason Clarke have also been confirmed for the new "action-packed" movie.
'Terminator: Genesis', the fifth instalment in the series, will be directed by Alan Taylor and is due to begin production in April with a scheduled release date of July 2015.

Joseph Fiennes has joined the cast of 'Strangerland'. The 43-year-old actor is set to star as Nicole Kidman's husband in the upcoming mystery drama, which will follow them as their lives unravel after their two teenage children go missing in the dese...

Holt McCallany is set to star in 'Monster Trucks'.
The 49-year-old actor will play a dangerous security contractor who is determined to get his job done, according to deadline.com.
He will join 'X‑Men: First Class' actor Lucas Till, Suburgatory's Jane Levy and US 'The Office' star Amy Ryan.
Till has been negotiating the role of a ''bad boy with a good heart'', while Levy will play a girl who is ''what one might imagine Tina Fey was like in high school" and Ryan has been cast as a single mum who is trying to make ends meet while raising her teenage son.
'Kung Fu Panda' writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger will pen the script while Mary Parent is producing the Chris Wedge-directed film through her Disruption Entertainment banner.
Production for 'Monster Trucks' is expected to start this summer and it is due for release in May 2015.
McCallany will next hit the big screen on 'Run All Night', opposite Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman and Ed Harris, to help tell the story of an ageing hitman who is forced to take on his brutal former boss to protect his estranged son and his family.

Pierce Brosnan has agreed to star in "the next" 'Expendables' film.
The 60-year-old actor has been offered a part in the action films - which have been written by and star Sylvester Stallone - by producer Avi Lerner, who would "love" to work with the hunk.
Talking to ShortList magazine, he said: "The offer has come in for the next 'Expendables'. I just worked over in Bulgaria with Avi Lerner who makes them. He said 'Would you like to be in 'The Expendables'? I'd love to have you', and I said 'Why not?'. So we'll see."
Quizzed on what film in the franchise he's referring to, the Hollywood A-Lister added: "I have no idea which one it would be, I just said 'Yes'. It could be seven!"
'The Expendables' was released in 2010 and proved to be commercially successful, and two years later a sequel hit the big screen grossing over $310 million worldwide.
The third installment will be released in August this year, starring film favourites Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li, who reprise their roles as leader of the titular group of mercenaries Barney Ross, second-in-command Lee Christmas and martial arts specialist Yin Yang, respectively.
Brosnan will next hit the big screen in 'A Long Way Down' opposite Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, 'That Awkward Moment' actress Imogen Poots and Toni Collette.

Matthew McConaughey is "extraordinary" in 'Interstellar'.
Director Christopher Nolan, who is notoriously secretive about his projects, has revealed he was desperate to hire the recent Oscar winner to star in his new sci-fi thriller - which co-stars Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Sir Michael Caine - after seeing him in critically acclaimed indie hit 'Mud'.
Nolan says McConaughey's performance in that film gave him an "inside track" regarding the actor's newfound success, including numerous accolades for his role in 'Dallas Buyers Club'.
The filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter: "'Mud' showed me a side of Matthew's capabilities that I never knew was there. It was a transformative performance. From when I first saw it, I had an inside track on how great he could be.
"I needed someone who is very much an everyman, someone the audience could experience the story with. He's just a phenomenal, charismatic presence in the movie. His performance is shaping up to be extraordinary."
Nolan also praised his regular collaborator Caine, who played Alfred in the director's 'Dark Knight' trilogy.
He enthused: "He comes so prepared and he is just so good with such a minimal effort. I cast him in every film just as an example to everyone else.
"He's just a lovely guy to be around. He jokes that he's my lucky charm. It was a very good strategy on his part."
The British filmmaker also revealed his policy when it comes to making movies, revealing he puts all of his efforts into the production at hand as if it's his last ever film.
Nolan added: "I have always viewed every film as the last film I'm going to do. I've always done that because I want to put everything into it. I might get hit by a bus at the end of production."

'Noah' reflects the "balance of wickedness and goodness" every human has, says the film's producer.
The biblical-based epic, which stars Russell Crowe as the titular character, mirrors the realism of human nature, according to Ari Handel who produced and co-wrote the film with director Darren Aronofsky.
She told the huffingtonpost.com: "The story is a movement from justice to mercy, the balance of wickedness and goodness. Every character in the film has goodness and wickedness in them because every human being has wickedness and goodness in them."
The "heart" of the film battles with why Noah - who saves himself and his family when the world is flooded - is "spared", and asks questions which people have contemplated for years.
She added: "At the heart of it is the big question - why is Noah spared? Why do we have wickedness punished at the beginning of the story and almost the very same words are used to say that wickedness will not be punished in the future? What does that change and how to understand it?
"People have been grappling with these questions for a long time so we wanted to look and find those answers."

Kermit the Frog joked about watching films starring Bruce Willis to prepare for the 'Muppets Most Wanted'.
The children's favourite was inspired by the 'Die Hard' star for his latest "action" role where he is arrested and taken to the Gulag after being mistaken for the villain, Constantine.
Kermit makes multiple escape attempts, each one thwarted by prison guard Nadya (Tina Fey), before eventually succeeding, and insists this part is unlike his previous performances.
Talking at the film's press conference on Tuesday (25.03.14), he told BANG Showbiz: "I think of myself as having a bit of an action role in this. It's something I haven't done before. In order to prepare for the role I watched all of Bruce Willis' movies and when that didn't work I went to his hairdresser."
Meanwhile Constantine - who plays the world's number one criminal and is only distinguished from Kermit because of the mole on his right cheek - admitted he enjoys playing the bad guy.
Constantine said: "There was part of me that enjoyed being the bad guy and enjoyed being hated. I was written that way, so what can I say."
Kermit added: "We don't hate him. It's sort of just a story for the movie. He's actually an old pal from the swamp, Ricky [Gervais] is his best friend."
Gervais stars as Constantine's henchman, Dominic 'The Lemur' Badguy, and thinks he's helped soften the stern frog.
He added: "Doing this movie and meeting me has thawed his [Constantine's] heart of stone. You see, he was born in a pond in Russia, one of 800 brothers, sisters, tadpoles, many of them dead. But showing him love has made him a cuddly little thing."

Anna Faris and her husband Chris Pratt have been cast in comedy 'Vacation Friends'.
The married stars - who have 18-month-old son Jack together - are set to put their real life chemistry to the test when they appear as an on-screen couple.
The movie centres around a straight-laced couple who become pals with a wild and eccentric couple (Faris and Pratt) during a holiday to Mexico, but upon return from their holiday they are dismayed to find their newfound crazy friends are trying to keep the party going.
Deadline.com reports, 20th Century Fox has bought the script from brothers Tom and Tim Mullen in a "near seven-figure deal", with 'Hot Tub Time Machine' director Steve Pink on board to direct.
Todd Garner will be producing through his Broken Road Picture banner.
'Scary Movie' star Faris and Pratt have acting opposite each other in the past, since they met on the set of 'Take Me Home Tonight' in 2008, and got married the following July.
Faris is currently on sitcom 'Mom' and Pratt will next be seen in 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'.