Like her husband Krasinski, Blunt was under consideration for a role as one of the original Avengers: Black Widow. She ultimately passed on the role — as well as the role of Peggy Carter — because, as she later told Vulture, "Usually the female parts in a superhero film feel thankless: She's the pill girlfriend while the guys are whizzing around saving the world. I didn't do the other ones because the part wasn't very good or the timing wasn't right, but I'm open to any kind of genre if the part is great and fun and different and a challenge in some way."