Scarlett is finally with us again. The most anticipated diva of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, also starring in the script for Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’, which screened in competition and hits theaters September 14, is beaming with her sunny smile here on the Croisette , in a pink designer dress by Prada, along with her husband Colin Jost, author and comedian. A lot has happened in the four-year absence of the American actress from the international media scene. In 2019, at the Venice Film Festival, she presented Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, now on Netflix, a film that tells of the pain of separation and which, she indicated, she also interpreted with the inclusion of personal experiences. Eventually, she fully immersed herself in the Wes Anderson-created role of the 1950s star: “I’ve been acting for so long that every character is the result of both my conscious mind and my subconscious, an extension of me and my dreams.” , he said at the press conference.
My sexy bombshell body, a cliché in danger of ruining me, the best movies have eluded me. “MY MYTHS? JUDY GARLAND AND WINONA RYDER: SO BEAUTIFUL, SO VULNERABLE – Scarlett Johansson stars in this photo with Bill Murray in ‘Lost in Translation’ (2003), directed by Sofia Coppola.
At just 38 years old, Scarlett Johansson seems to have lived more life, and not just because she started acting as a child and has now boasted some seventy titles and stories for the big and small screen: “I’m Competitive” , she often says. He loves a challenge and takes the risk of changing professionally and personally, as has happened recently. She’s back after completing the lengthy film cycle with Natasha Romanoff-Black Widow, a Marvel heroine who has starred her in nine titles, from Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 in 2010 to Cate Shortland’s Black Widow in 2021 The rankings brought actor busting the box office: Scarlett’s global big screen earnings total $14.5 billion, and her seal of approval is around $20 million per film.
With her third husband on the Croisette
However, if today she is one of the most popular actresses, it is not only because of the blockbuster saga, but also because of her great versatility in the transition from pop to art house cinema. And speaking of changes, on the Croisette she presented herself to Colin Jost, married in 2020, third husband after her divorce from Ryan Reynolds in 2011 and from French journalist Romain Dauriac in 2017 (whom she married nine years ago got a daughter). Rose). He’s spent lockdowns between the stress of a lawsuit against Walt Disney – who has been accused of breaching Black Widow’s contract by fining her financially by posting it on the platform – and the joy of another son, Cosmo, born in 2021 was born. The Legal Case An agreement was reached with Disney, the details of which were not disclosed. However, in a recent interview with Variety, the actress recalled, “I was disappointed and sad.” It happened right as we were all trying to get out of the pandemic. Luckily, I had the most wonderful distraction that can happen: the miracle of a new life that captured my full attention.”
Scarlett Johansson in Asteroid City, directed by Wes Anderson: in cinemas in Italy on September 14, 2023. Two Oscar nominations and 5 Golden Globes
The most surprising revelation, however, concerns his moments of deep fragility, those knots no one would imagine exist in the fabric of a sacred star, with two Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nominations. It all started with “Lost in Translation”, the film by Sofia Coppola, which made 17-year-old Scarlett a world star. However, she immediately falls into a trap from which there is no way out: the Sexy Bomb label. “I felt like I was being pigeonholed into a stereotype that was very difficult to escape from. I’ve done films like Ken Kwapis’ He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) that pushed this type of storytelling. I was offered all sorts of Marilyn Monroe-based roles, which I absolutely didn’t want. And when I got turned down for two films that were very close to my heart, I felt lost.”
Knowing how to point out human contradictions
Emily Blunt was initially preferred for Iron Man 2 (2010), and director Alfonso Cuarón chose Sandra Bullock for Gravity (2013). “The straw that broke the camel’s back.” I wanted this role so badly that I asked myself, “Have I reached the end of the creative frontier?” Will this still be the right job for me?” After Emily Blunt dropped Iron Man 2 due to another commitment, Scarlett returns to the project and her insecurities seem to melt away. Except for reappearing in what has been his favorite motto ever since: fragility is a great strength for each of us, for the characters we are reflected in, for the actors who play them and display their human contradictions. From Scarlett’s thought: “Admitting vulnerability is a powerful thing. “We all have contradictory sides, and it’s true that the stories in cinema reflect the richness and humanity of each character,” says Johansson. «Unlike 50 years ago, the public is reflected precisely in the nuances. It’s not just black and white.”
– Scarlett in «Black Widow», directed by Cate Shortland (2021): Following 9 films from 2010’s «Iron Man 2» by Jon Favreau to the 2021 sci-fi adventure that bears her name, is the character the Black Widow Natasha Romanoff a retired fan of Judy Garland and Winona Ryder
Even the actresses who inspired her make fragility their star character. “I used to watch old Hollywood movies as a kid and was a big Judy Garland fan.” Very good, so beautiful and vulnerable. She expressed an emotion that made me feel close to her. I liked Winona Ryder for the same reason, she was a teenager in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands in 1990 and she was looking for her own way.” Johansson’s passion for theater and cinema began at an early age. The daughter of a Danish architect and an American Jew, with Polish and Russian roots, with experience as a producer, Scarlett grew up in New York’s Greenwich Village with her twin Hunter and another brother and older sister. “As a child, I demanded a lot of attention. It will be that my mother often showed us old films and musicals, the fact is that I sang and danced with the whole family. Whenever she could, Mom would take us to Broadway. I remember queuing to get half price tickets.’ And it was in an Off-Broadway comedy that Johansson made his debut at age 9, starring in Sophistry with Ethan Hawke: “I first had a crush on him.” She got her first major one at 12 Role in Lisa Krueger’s Manny & Lo, where she played the younger sister of a teenager who became pregnant.
The turning point with positive criticism
She was praised by the San Francisco Chronicle critic, who wrote, “If adolescence doesn’t rob you of the peaceful aura she expresses, she could become an important actress.” She is also a recipient of the Independent Spirit Award. Not everything is easy in her youth, starting with the separation of her parents when Scarlett is 13 years old, but she does not stop there, she goes from a mother, I have the measles, to the horse whisperer with Robert Redford, to Peter Webbers Girl with a Pearl Earring published the same year, 2003, as Lost in Translation. The curse of child actors, whom Hollywood often condemns to mental distress, is escaped by a family who, while a little unconventional, gave her — “there were no rules in my house,” he once said on television on the Jimmy Fallon series –, kept her on the ground . “I was lucky, my parents protected me from encounters with strangers.” His courage did the rest. She tested herself with the great directors: Woody Allen wanted her in various works, starting with Match Point in 2005, the Coen brothers in Ave Cesare! (2016). She has chosen anything but ordinary roles: Jonathan Glazer turned her into an extraterrestrial in Under the Skin (2013), Luc Besson turned her into a superhuman in Lucy (2014).
Even advertising in their own way
To interpret Marvel’s Black Widow, she underwent military training and an intermittent diet, fasting 12 hours a day for months, peaking at 14-15 at some moments of filming. She hasn’t missed anything the Star System has to offer, starting with advertising campaigns for various brands, but she’s done it all in her own unique way. So much so, in fact, that she launched her own line of beauty products last year, distinguishing herself from the celebrities who go for a brand of their own: She dubbed her brand “The Outset,” meaning the beginning. “I don’t want to conform to the standards of others and I don’t want to exploit my ego in this area either: it took me five years to develop the idea of a line of clean, ethical products that correspond to my values,” he explained. ‘I like the name Outset because I’ve started many times in my life. The most recent starting point was the children and the effort to reconcile work and family. Two things that I strictly separate in public.”
The choice: zero social media
‘No social media, not even to promote my beauty line, and it doesn’t matter if my choices remain different from anyone else’s. I feel like I can interact with the public and be more true to myself without having to post pictures of the breakfast I made myself.” Thanks in part to a world of cinema that has opened up more to female professionals, we will future in Kristin Scott-Thomas’ directorial debut, My Mother’s Wedding, alongside the director-actress herself and Sienna Miller. Her daughter Rose, meanwhile, wants her to play the role of a Disney princess: “Unfortunately, I don’t think that dream can come true.”
CAREER – Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York to a Danish architect and a Jewish-American actress. The first film was in 1994, Rob Reiner’s Parents Wanted. She rose to international prominence in 1998 for her role as Grace in Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer.
THE CONSECRATION – But to celebrate it are “Lost in translation” and “Girl with a Pearl Earring: It’s one of two Golden Globe nominations in 2003.” With Woody Allen he made Match Point (2005 ), Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). In 2020, she is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” and for Best Supporting Role for Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit.”
PERSONAL LIFE – She married actor Ryan Reynolds in 2008; the two separated two years later. In 2014 she married French journalist Romain Dauriac, father of their daughter Rose: Goodbye in 2017. Three years ago she married comedian Colin Jost and Cosmo was born in 2021.