Scarlett Johansson has revealed she found it really distracting when The Other Boleyn Girl co-star Eric Bana had to wear a codpiece.

She said recently: “We’d be ready to do a scene and I couldn’t look at anything else. I won’t get over that codpiece for a long time.”

“Eric would use it as a tool. He would rest his hands or a cup of coffee on it. People would even lead him around the set by it.”

Scarlett plays Mary Boleyn opposite Natalie Portman’s Anne and Eric’s Henry VIII in the film set for release later this year.