Scarlett Johansson Breaks Down Her Career, from 'Her' to 'Avengers: Endgame' | Vanity Fair

[Music] I'm Scarlett Johansson and these are the highlights of my career what can I get you I'm not sure for relaxing times make it Suntory time I started working when I was 8 years old I had met Sophia before she did I remember her talking she was a big fan of my film I knew when I was 10 called Manny and lo then I'd rather be with lo any day she's my sister and she's good people and then years later I'd met her for the Virgin Suicides for something I don't remember which part it was or if I did a reading for her and so it wasn't I hadn't hadn't heard from Sophia in a few years I was 17 and took a meeting with her about something that she was writing and it turned out to be lost in translation and she was in the middle of writing it I think I committed to the project before the script was finished based on the fact that I was working opposite bill Moreno it was such an enormous fan of his how long you been married 2 years 25 long ones you're probably just having a midlife crisis did you buy a Porsche the shoot was really short it was only like 26 days or something like that so we shot and really intensely for that time I was also 17 years old and I was in Tokyo my mom came with me thankfully because you know was kind of a isolating feeling we were working weird hours and working a lot and I kind of felt transient and in that in that space headspace that the character Charlotte is in a little bit where my life was kind of in-between two places and it was kind of like a girl woman I I thought it seems like an adventurous project that's how that happened that's how it started I'm not a baby I know a lot more do people think I know Beatrice says to be a woman but yeah what did she be a woman I never imagined when we were doing a view from the bridge that I I never really thought about the Tonys because I had I had had never had an experience on Broadway before I hadn't done the theater since I was like a kid and I was just learning so much really on the stage every night it was such an incredibly intense experience the work was really hard and really rewarding and it was very very exciting every night I never knew what was gonna happen and you know I was working against Liam Shriver who was is such a powerful actor just being able to spend my nights you know with Michael and we have and you know catch up and talk about what happened on the stage that night and Greg Moshe Mosier directing it I felt so satisfied creatively making that doing that play and so you know of course I felt very emotional at the Toni's because I the whole thing was so unexpected but it was it was like just in Treasury I'm all mixed up you have a box before I have yes like the tae-bo booty boot camp brunch or something like that Iron Man 2 was the first time I'd ever had to combat train and it was grueling I mean I found out that I got the role five weeks before we started shooting and so I just had to transform in there was five weeks and so it was a it was a pretty intense time rule number one never take your eye off your Pope it's actually been such a gift for me because I was probably maybe 23 or 24 at the time and it actually gave me this life of physical acumen I mean we'd probably never have had otherwise and I learned the base of a lot of you know different martial arts and how to be sort of a very amateur stunt woman not that I would ever take the credit away from the incredible stunt women that have doubled me including Heidi moneymaker who does all the that's aurelion who does all has a lot of Black Widow stuff with me yes I've learned learned so much from her during that experience I really learned how to do I mean how to throw a punch how to hold a weapon you know all kinds of stuff like that that's pretty what is that you're gonna write a piece of music that's not what it feels like to be on the beach with you right now when I heard from my agent that spike needed with you know was looking for a voice actor and I remember right you did say you know it's a couple days of work on his new film and I thought all right you know he's like do you want to kind of go in and read with him a little bit and okay you know I like to do voice work anyway you know I've always liked that element of acting and well first I read the script and I remember I called my agent I said I think this is pretty extensive it seems like more than a couple of days of work but you know who knows that I didn't know anything about the project and maybe spike had something else in mind and so I went down downtown and meet with him at his apartment and we started kind of pulling apart the script and and recording all of these pieces and I think we were together for like eight hours or something like that I thought god this is like really a lot of work I didn't even realize I'm his audition I didn't know anything really about it we're at the end of it spike said you know I think we should thank you so much we really should keep kind of doing this and I thought I think this is like a regular job but it was so big yes he was kind of filling it out and I think eventually he admitted to me I was like the last actor he auditioned I guess it was an audition there was a lot of issues with the with the character and her story and a revolution in as as spike was kind of in post was was finding that the relationship between these two characters was shifting as he was putting it together and the character kind of needed to be flushed out as if almost as a whole I think person even though she's in AI but it is she needed to feel like this full dimensional character you know that that had all this that had lived this whole full life your fifth time hosting we have a very special five timers jacket just for you oh I think the most challenging part of hosting SNL really is the stamina that that it requires because that week of work is so intense between whatever pieces you have to learn whether it's a song or doing like a digital short or whatever other kind of preteen you have to do fittings promos stuff all in the monologue it's so much work for the host in your poll in every different direction and everyone needs you all the time that is the most challenging thing it's just the stamina required to actually host the show but it's probably like one of the singular most rewarding experiences I've had in my career because when the show is good it the the vibe with the buzz that everybody's feeling afterward is pretty exciting it's it's it's really fun I know so because you get to work with all these fantastic performers and comedians when you're having a great show they're also having a great show you know it's just a wonderful collaborative feeling where's the new girl sorry here I'm here to do your laundry and to see a friend clearly your friend is fine I'm really proud of him game it was so ambitious I felt it really strongly delivered I felt it was satisfying actually I felt like endgame elevated the genre in a lot of ways and actually allowed all of us as characters to have great dramatic moments where you don't normally have that much room in those John rules because they're so plot driven but this one we could actually it was actually felt quite character driven I felt very emotional when I watched it but also really proud of it let me go please know [Music] they meet someone special why does everyone keep telling me that well that's su this I think what's really exciting about Jojo rabbit is it's it's just very different it looks different the story is so original and refreshing you know it's it when I read that script it was this perfect little gem it was such a beautiful perfect script it was emotional I cried and I just found it so special tyka is obviously a you know wellspring of creative energy he's an amazing comedian he's an incredible writer he's a fantastic dramatic actor and he understands all those many facets of you know performance of a story and the value of them and he's a kind of a mad scientist I'll come up on the moment with these crazy speeches and dialogue and suggestions and you know he's got so much sort of phonetic creative energy that it's it's intoxicating the Georgia rabbit is not like any one thing it's it's super dynamic the most exciting thing to me is that when movies like that are able to get me the way they're supposed to they look like they're supposed to they're given attention and time and money and they come out and people actually respond to them it's exciting because it it shows you that you can actually still make stuff like that that there's still a place for movies in the theater that people will go and see and that and that you can tell unique stories and people it's good for everybody when those movies do well and strike a chord the response has been just really wonderful it's a stupid idea no stupid what I love about Nicole she's a great dancer infectious I think marriage story is definitely you know there's a lot of there's a lot of complex emotional the relationship between the two characters is complicated like any relationship that's meaningful and as 10 years of history and there's a lot of different kinds of feelings all happening at the same time which is not to say that it was all super heavy while it was exhausting and the days were long because Noah is also very is relentless in his search for every you know possibility and exhausting every kind of angle of any given scene because of that because you had all this sort of room just spread out it actually felt really liberating like kind of light in a way even though the material is heavy it's also kind of playful I think as an actor you you feel invigorated by stuff that's working in stuff that feels real and complicated and surprising it means scene that you would carry around this kind of weight while you're doing heavy dramatic lifting like that but in fact it's kind of like going to the gym and lifting a heavy weight and then you feel this kind of rush of endorphins you know when you feel like weight and fit and grade you just wrap BlackWidow like two weeks ago or something like that so it's very fresh in my mind and I don't have a total perspective on it yet but um it's a film about about self forgiveness and it's a film about about family I think in life we sort of come of age many times and in your life and you have these kind of moments where you're kind of in the transitional phase and then you move sort of beyond it and I think in the Black Widow standalone film I think the character is that when we find her as in a moment of real crisis and throughout the film by facing herself and and a lot of ways and all the things that make her her she actually kind of comes through that that crisis on the other side and he's able to sort of reset into a space where she's a more grounded self possessed person so that's her journey well I hope anyway [Music]

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Length: 13min 32sec (812 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 26 2019