She’s bringing a Manga classic to the big screen.

But playing Major in Ghost In The Shell wasn’t as simple as just slipping on a costume, with Scarlett Johansson revealing the gruelling toll the role’s stunts took on her body.

In an interview with The Project on Friday, the 32-year-old actress and the film’s director Rupert Sanders detailed how Scarlett was forced to say no to ‘bacon and eggs’ in favour of beating up bad guys on screen.

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‘Put the marine down!’ Scarlett Johansson reveals the physical toll of filming Ghost In The Shell and how there was no time for ‘bacon and eggs’

The Project’s Scott Dooley asked the pair what it was like filming the role in 3D with very little physical set.

Scarlett revealed that her body became ‘permanently just messed up’ from all the high action stunts.

At some point, your body becomes so conditioned to just being really hard on itself all the time that you kind of get used to being permanently just messed up,’ Scarlett said.

Sore: Scarlett revealed that her body became ‘permanently just messed up’ from all the high action stunts

‘… It’s different levels of how messed up you are.’

‘While we were all having bacon and eggs and baked beans, she was lifting weights and beating up military guys and stuff,’ Rupert added.

‘Breakfast of champions,’ the actress quipped, causing Scott to joke: ‘Put the marine down!’

That’s awkward! Between the stunts of the physical role it actually took the Lost In Translation star several months to work out the movie was in 3D

Between the stunts of the physical role it actually took the Lost In Translation star several months to work out the movie was in 3D.

‘I didn’t even know that we were shooting in 3D at first,’ she confessed, laughing.

‘The third and a half month or whatever it was. Somebody was like “this is what we’re doing” and I was like, “wait a minute, is this 3D?” I had no idea!’

Iconic part: Scarlett’s role in Ghost In The Shell comes amid controversy over her casting, with fans of the Japanese cartoon accusing Hollywood of white washing

Scarlett’s role in Ghost In The Shell comes amid controversy over her casting, with fans of the Japanese cartoon accusing Hollywood of white washing.

But the actress rubbished the claims, arguing her character was ‘identity-less’ in an interview with Good Morning America on Friday.

‘I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously,’ she said.  ‘Hopefully, any question that comes up of my casting will be answered by audiences when they see the film.’

‘I would never attempt to play a person of a different race’: But the actress rubbished the claims, arguing her character was ‘identity-less’ in an interview with Good Morning America on Friday