It’s getting pretty hard to avoid Scarlett Johansson, but why would you want to? We’ve learned that the star of blockbusters (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”), weird art-house sci-fi (“Under the Skin”) and magazine covers hates the ScarJo nickname (which she thinks “lazy,” “tacky” and “violent”), used to date fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff, with whom she “elegantly” smoked pot as a teen (according to a friend) and is not backing down after doing a commercial for SodaStream, an Israeli company with a factory in the disputed West Bank territory.
Here’s what else we’ve learned from the ScarJo profile deluge:
Scarlett’s pregnancy is off-limits to the press
Nobody gets to ask her about her pregnancy. Not a word about it appears in the profiles. New Yorker writer Anthony Lane said publicists forbade him to ask her about it.
Don’t bother bringing up her short-lived marriage to Ryan Reynolds either
She doesn’t like to talk about her marriage to Ryan Reynolds, whom she divorced three years ago. She says, vaguely, that she is now a better communicator with a partner and has more patience.
Expect Scarlett to be a low-maintenance kind of bride
For her second trip to the altar, she isn’t going to be a Bridezilla. Asked about her upcoming nuptials with art-loving Paris journalist Romain Dauriac, she told Glamour, “We’re just going with the flow. I’ve never been one to do a full-on themed wedding. I don’t care about that stuff.”
Scarlett dreams of Disney
Her dream is to do a Disney musical like “Frozen,” which she loved.
This screen siren would love a chance to sit in the director’s chair
But what she really wants to do is direct. She already has a project in development, Truman Capote’s novella “Summer Crossing.” She and playwright Tristine Skyler did the script, which she hopes to begin shooting next spring.
There’s no sibling rivalry here
She’s a twin. Her brother Hunter, with whom she attended P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village, and she grew up dancing and singing show tunes together and appeared in a school production of “Oliver!” They turn 30 on Nov. 29. “We’re very protective of each other,” she told Glamour.
Scarlett was born to be the “Black Widow”
After years of being “uninspired” by her roles in movie flops like “Black Dahlia” and “The Island,’” she fiercely campaigned for the role of Black Widow in “Iron Man 2,” even showing up for an audition with her hair already dyed red.
‘Her’ literally left Scarlett thirsty (and hungry) for more
Her meeting with director Spike Jonze about replacing Samantha Morton as the voice of the title character in “Her” unexpectedly lasted eight hours, at the end of which she was starving and dehydrated, she told Vanity Fair.
Scarlett’s a karaoke queen
She kills it at karaoke. Her go-to songs are Fleetwood Mac’s “Second Hand News,” “Dreams” and “Landslide.”
NYC and Paris measure up differently, fashion-wise
Paris, where she hangs out with Dauriac, has “more competition” to look good than her native New York. “New York is about street style that’s functional,” she told Glamour. “A Paris look is not functional. It doesn’t matter if your shoes are comfortable. Here you can still wear your Nikes. In Paris you suck it up. You hobble around.”
Scarlett has a way of making writers lose it
She makes writers hyperventilate: “I realized, too, that Scarlett wasn’t just a movie star. She was a movie goddess, the purest strain of movie star . . . . when you’re around a movie goddess. . . . you become a man, even if you’re not one. You gawk. You gape. You leer.” — Vanity Fair
“A tough-kid tomboy, ridiculous comic, gorgeous world traveler, badass action hero, and sexpot, all at once — and always a woman everyone, everywhere, would like to sit down with.”— Glamour
“Would it be construed as trespass, therefore, to state that Johansson looks tellingly radiant in the flesh? Mind you, she rarely looks unradiant, so it’s hard to say whether [pregnancy] has made a difference. Johansson was, indeed, gilded to behold. She seemed to be made from champagne.” — The New Yorker