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| | Scarlett Johansson & Matt Damon: "We Bought a Zoo" NYC Premiere | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Capping off a full day of press duties, Scarlett Johansson was the center of attention at the premiere of "We Bought a Zoo" in New York City on Monday night (December 12).
The 27-year-old actress dazzled on the arrivals carpet at the Ziegfield Theater venue while promoting the Cameron Crowe directed film alongside co-stars Matt Damon, Elle Fanning and Thomas Haden Church.
Based on true story, the movie surrounds a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of a bizarre staff and many misadventures, the family works to rebuild the neglected zoo back to its original wonder.
Talking about the picture, Miss Johansson told this morning during her "Today" show appearance, ?It is a true story based on Benjamin Mee. He wrote a book about his experience and there is also a documentary about his experience. I think the film is really about starting over. I think it's about a sort of human connectivity that allows us to kind of overcome obstacles that seem larger than life at times.?
Also starring Patrcik Fugit and John Michael Higgins, "We Bought a Zoo" is set to hit theaters on December 23rd.
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| | Scarlett Johansson Talks 2011 Turmoil on the "Today" Show | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Paying a visit to NBC Studios to promote her upcoming family dramedy "We Bought a Zoo," Scarlett Johansson was one of the celebrity guests appearing on the "Today" show on Monday (December 12).
Looking beautiful in blue, the 27-year-old actress sat down for a candid interview with host Matt Lauer while talking about her film, as well as her divorce from Ryan Reynolds and much-talked-about nude photo scandal.
Of making it through the 2011 turmoil, Scarlett said, "I've been really fortunate. I've found that even in times of crisis I've had a lot of love around me and people have come out of all different dark corners to support (me) and that's a really beautiful thing."
With the full interview below, Johansson added, "I think I've also learned to be much more tolerant and much more patient."
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| | Scarlett Johansson: 'I?ve never been single for a chunk of time before' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We already previewed Scarlett Johansson?s Cosmopolitan cover (for January 2012) a few days ago, but now The Mail has some excerpts from the interview. I?ll say it again – Scarlett, like Lady Gaga, doesn?t really have much to say. Scarlett, like Gaga, does too much press for too little work. That being said, Scarlett didn?t come off too badly in this piece, mostly because she?s trying to sound like her marriage and divorce was all cotton candy and rainbows and she just learned so much.
Scarlett on her marriage to Ryan Reynolds: ?I’m a big believer that when something feels right, you should do it. I’m a big believer in instinct. Getting married was the right thing to do because it was natural. It grew out of a romance and love and a desire to have a future with somebody and I was very fortunate that I married somebody who turned out to be the person I thought he would be.?
Marriage wasn?t what she thought it would be: ?Relationships are complicated and being married is a living, breathing process. I think I was not fully aware of the peaks and valleys. I wasn’t prepared to hunker down and do the work.?
On the divorce: ?Both of us were extremely busy. We spent so much time apart. It’s very difficult. It’s bad.?
No regrets: ?It seemed like a very romantic thing to do, and it was. It was the best thing I ever did.?
Learning from her starter marriage: ?You have to be very confident and solid within yourself to have a successful marriage.?
She?s currently single: ?I’ve never been single for a chunk of time before. You miss having a partner and a confidant, but I have to say, I’m appreciating having the time to get to know myself.?
That story about having sex with Benicio Del Toro in an elevator the Chateau Marmont: ?It’s the worst story ever. That story will haunt me for my whole life. If you have ever been in that elevator you know it’s like 31/2 seconds from one floor to another. It’s crazy. But anyway a journalist asked me about this rumour and I was 19 or 20. I didn’t realize how sarcasm would come off and I said something like: ‘I don’t know, I would find that very unsanitary’. And the guy printed that and at the end he wrote: ‘Which isn’t to say that she denied it’. So of course, other outlets ran with it! I hate that it’s become, like, Hollywood lore, but what are you going to do??
Trying to move away from her sexpot image: ?As a 19-year-old girl I was very eager to play into that. Why not? You’re 19 and you’re feeling fabulous and young. I don’t know that I could have sold myself as a character actor at 19. It’s nice for people to think you’re attractive. But I was never, like, a model or anything. I think because I wasn’t 90lbs, I was suddenly this “bombshell” and “hourglass” and all those things, but I never wanted to make my career off that. Everything I’ve been doing in the past year involves characters that the last thing on their mind is finding Mr. Right or being taken care of.?
[From Cosmo via The Mail]
Aw, damn! She denied the Benicio story! I love that story. That?s how I?ve always chosen to think of Scarlett – as the kind of girl who would bone Benicio del Toro in an elevator and then never speak to him again. I wish she was that girl. I get that she?s trying to sound all mature and ?Look at me, I?m a real actress, you should nominate me for an Oscar at some point!? But I wish Scarlett would just start boning random A-list dudes, just for the fun of it.
Also – this week?s Us Weekly suggests that Scarlett isn?t really as ?over? Ryan Reynolds as she?d like to be. According to Us Weekly?s source, Scarlett is pissed that Ryan is dating Blake Lively because Ryan is supposed to still be hung up on HER. Ryan wanted to reconcile earlier this year, but then Scarlett starting boning Sean Penn, and Ryan got fed up. The source says: ?Ryan would have gotten back with her. He was so totally in love, but then she flaunted Sean right after their split, and he was done? Scarlett is pissed that he?s not under her spell anymore.? Ryan found a new pair of boobs, Scar. Time to pack ?em up and start boning any A-lister that comes along.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Cosmo.
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| | Scarlett Johansson Gets Kinky in Interview Magazine | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Interview magazine has Scarlett Johansson doing the semi-androgynous S&M thing on the cover of their December issue. Apparently Scarlett Johansson can get away with leather lederhosen, but when I wear something like that it’s “indecent exposure” and I get maced.
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| | Scarlett Johansson covers Interview mag: boyish or still a sexy siren? | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Scarlett Johansson covers the December issue of Interview magazine to promote her new film, We Bought a Zoo, which was directed by Cameron Crowe and has already drawn the ire of PETA. The film also stars Matt Damon, who, oddly enough, has just rubbed shoulders with PETA over his attendance at a bullfighting match. For her part, the magazine notes that Scarlett is coming off a tumultuous year after divorcing Ryan Reynolds (and feeling quite depressed as a result) before rebounding with the likes of Sean Penn and his chain-smoking toupee.
Then there were the infamous tata & booty shots downloaded around the world. Scar really did look good in those photos, didn’t she? Consequently, I’m trying to wrap my head around this photoshoot, which features Scar’s rather trimmed-down Avengers physique and a boyish hairstyle. On one hand, the stylist seems to be aiming for an androgynous vibe, which is somewhat counteracted by Scar’s poses:
On to the interview though, which is conducted by Arianna Huffington and features a lot of talk by Scar on serious subjects. Maybe:
On Being Politically Active: “I’m already planning what I’m going to wear to the next White House Correspondents? dinner. Next time I go I’m going to find Anderson Cooper?s table and camp out there. My brother was totally geeked-out by Katie Couric. I think he followed her around the entire night. I was chasing after him, and I turned around, and I had a bunch of Republican senators chasing after me. [laughs] But honestly I think it’s the best party in town. I’d rather go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner than any awards show.”
On Balancing Fame & Privacy: “I don’t really profess to know how to balance any of it. I don’t profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It’s a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I’m always readjusting to it. But I hope it never becomes normal to feel scrutinized. I value my privacy and my personal life-and I certainly don’t exploit my personal life. But that’s not always in your control. There are, unfortunately, people who are interested in prying. You know, my favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they’re playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that. So when I’m not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can. This has just been a bit of a crazy year.”
On Avoiding Twitter “Personally, I don’t feel the need to brand myself in that way. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented. They’re amazing tools to communicate information-especially about different causes or crises or movements. That said, I don’t have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don’t know how I feel about this idea of, ‘Now, I’m eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I’m having dinner at this time’ or ‘I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids.’ That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon. I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life. I’m always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts.”
On Her Work In Somalia & Kenya: Well, I’ve been fortunate enough to travel with Oxfam several times, and they’re always so well organized, so it was a good way to show the kind of work they’re doing. You read statistics all the time like, “13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa,” but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears-there’s so much devastation in the world, that it’s a bit overwhelming for people. But by seeing a first-hand account of something like the effects of the drought in the Horn of Africa, you can have a different relationship with the story. It?s one of the blessings that come with new media. I’m hoping to go to Ethiopia in February and do a similar kind of project there because it’s an ongoing crisis, so I think it’s important to keep some focus there right now.
“It’s seemingly a whole other world. But in actuality, you’re standing next to somebody, looking them in the eye, and what you realize is that there is a human connectivity that exists between people no matter the cultural difference. You don’t even have to go that far. There are people in America who are absolutely desperate right now, who have no means to support their families, who have no opportunities to better themselves or their education-and they’re not that different from the farmers and working-class people that I visited when I went to Kenya with Oxfam. Whether they’re in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for themselves and their families. They don’t want handouts. They don’t want to be completely dependent on their governments-even though there’s usually no opportunity for that anyway. But they want to be self-sufficient and have a sustainable lifestyle. You know, I just finished this movie, The Avengers, in September, and we shot in places like Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in Cleveland, and around Ohio. We shot in a town called Wilmington in Ohio. It’s a lovely town, and the people there were really generous and welcomed us with open arms, but I’m sure part of that was probably that this film was an opportunity for commerce that they haven’t had for a long time. So these problems sometimes seem so impossibly large that it?s hard not to be pessimistic.”
[From Interview magazine]
Hopefully, Scarlett was just joking about having her outfit all picked out for next year’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Whatever the case, I’m just hoping that the wonk foot makes another appearance at the event. It would be a great annual tradition, you know? But I hate to make fun of Scarlett for what she’s said in this interview because, honestly, she seems to have a better grasp on worldly issues than most starlets these days. I know that it’s really easy to laugh at Scar for fancying herself an intellectual, but she does well here. Mostly.
Now onto the rest of this puzzling photoshoot. How exactly does this topless picture of Scarlett seem so entirely unappealing? It’s mystifying.
Photos courtesy of Interview magazine
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| | Scarlett Johansson Topless Interview Pictures | | Added 13 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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You don’t have to ask me twice to post pictures of Scarlett Johansson with her top off. Sure they’re a little artsy-fartier than I would have liked and there aren’t any nipples or girl on girl action or any of that good stuff, but they still work. I don’t see the big deal, they’re just
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| | Scarlett Johansson Tokes Up | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Scarlett Johansson was photographed smoking a joint between takes while on location in Scotland for her new film ‘Under the Skin.’ I assume from the way she’s dressed that it’s a movie about Missy Elliot’s twin white sister or a woman who turned one of those bite suits they use to train police dogs into a successful canine protection outerwear line. Either way, I won’t be seeing it.
PHOTO SOURCE: Fame Pictures
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| | Scarlett Johansson Talks Nude Photos in Vanity Fair | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Scarlett Johansson opens up about those hacked nude photos that surfaced online back in September in next month’s Vanity Fair magazine. The Daily Mail says:
Miss Johansson, 26, has explained that she sent [the photos] to her former husband, Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds.
?Those are old, from three years ago,? she told the magazine. ?They were sent to my husband. There?s nothing wrong with that.
‘It?s not like I was shooting a porno ? although there?s nothing wrong with that either.?
She even joked that they showed her in a flattering light because ?I know my best angles?.
Did she just hint at a possible sex tape? Because it sounds like she was hinting at a possible sex tape. The little cricket on the poster at the library says if we believe hard enough, we can make it happen!
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| | Scarlett Johansson covers Vanity Fair, claims those tata photos were for Ryan | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Scarlett Johansson takes the cover of the December issue of Vanity Fair, although I?m not sure if she?s actually promoting anything. Her next film is We Bought A Zoo, but I can?t even see if that film has a release date yet. Mostly, ScarJo just did the cover so she could talk about her nude photos (they were for Ryan Reynolds, when they were married), her relationship with Woody Allen (joined by hypochondria) and her divorce. I would love to know if Scarlett discussed the Sean Penn interlude, but I guess I?ll have to wait until the full interview comes out:
Scarlett Johansson does not seem the least bit ashamed when discussing her recent nude-photo scandal with Vanity Fair contributing editor Peter Biskind.
?I know my best angles,? she says with her trademark insouciance. ?They were sent to my husband,? now ex Ryan Reynolds. ?There?s nothing wrong with that. It?s not like I was shooting a porno.? She adds saucily, ?Although there?s nothing wrong with that either.?
Johansson, who has been active in campaigning for various Democratic political leaders, including Barack Obama, tells Biskind that nearly one term later ?we?re all guilty of being idealistic, I and everyone who voted for him.? But in response to being asked if she would work for him again, she says, ?It would be irresponsible not to.?
She also discusses her friendship with Woody Allen, spawned by their shared tendency toward hypochondria and, subsequently, shared Purell.
?He shakes a lot of hands,? Johansson explains. ?I?ll squirt some in my hand and then squirt in his.? She also has a bizarre penchant for diagnosing him. ?The only reason why Woody and I are still friends is because I?ve diagnosed all kinds of his skin tags, lesions, ailments. I?ve prescribed things for Woody that he?s then asked his doctor to prescribe for him.?
Despite their compatibility, after working with Johansson on several films, Allen decided they should take a break: ?I have every intention of working with her again, but I just didn?t think it was a great idea for either one of us to work together too intensely, picture after picture. I didn?t want her to be burdened by, ?Oh, she?s in all the Woody Allen pictures, it?s so predictable,? and she?s my new muse, and all that silliness.? Johansson does not share his opinion: ?I don?t think anything?s played out. I?m waiting for him to write my Citizen Kane.?
Johansson says that her role in a revival of Arthur Miller?s A View from the Bridge in 2009 opposite Liev Schreiber ?completely took me over in every way. I?d spent four months bleeding all over the stage, completely exposed. I felt I was forever changed by that experience. It was unbelievable holding that Tony.?
Her emotional and physical exhaustion after the end of the run was compounded by her subsequent divorce from Reynolds. ?I didn?t really know what to do with myself. It was such a strange time. There was nothing that was interesting to me. I had a very public separation. It was difficult. I felt very uncomfortable.?
[From Vanity Fair]
I remember when Scarlett was just the hottest thing ever and seemingly every regular and celebrity guy wanted to get with her - when was it? Circa 2006-07, I think. And then she married Ryan Reynolds and aimed for a more low-key lifestyle, and she dieted away her curves, and suddenly, most dudes moved on to crushing on other chicks. Plus, once she and Ryan were over and Scarlett starting boning Sean Penn, I think men and women were really turned off. I kind of wonder if Scarlett?s newly discovered happiness to do sexy photo shoots and give revealing interviews is part of her attempt to regain a male fanbase?
Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair.
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| | Scarlett Johansson: Hard at Work in Scotland | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Braving the chilly and rainy conditions, Scarlett Johansson was spotted on the set of ?Under the Skin? earlier today (October 31).
The ?In Good Company? actress filmed scenes in the coastal town of Auchmithie near Dundee, Scotland for the forthcoming sci-fi horror flick.
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