“It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” says the actress, whose luck changed with Marvel
Scarlett Johansson She is one of the biggest current stars in Hollywood, but there was a time when she was not at all satisfied with the path her career was taking. In fact, she herself confessed to Variety that she felt lost and that There was a specific moment when he was about to throw in the towel.. It was all mainly due to an excellent sci-fi movie she was rejected for.
“I wanted that role with all my might”
The actress remembers that the lowest moment of his career It coincided with two films for which she was rejected. The chances of fate led to the story having a happy ending in the case of ‘Iron Man 2’, but with ‘Gravity’ she was not so lucky, as she herself remembers:
“I wanted that role with all my might. It was a bit of the straw that broke the camel’s back. I felt very frustrated and desperate., like, am I doing the right job? The job I was offered seemed deeply unsatisfying. I think they offered me all of Marilyn Monroe’s scripts. I was like, ‘Is this the end of the road creatively speaking?’
Alfonso Cuarón’s film was finally starring Sandra Bullockbut in ‘Iron Man 2’ she benefited from the fact that Emily Blunt had to leave the project at the last minute due to a previous contractual obligation, which forced him to do it instead ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.
Johansson herself remembers that the Marvel movie “I wasn’t going to change anything in terms of how my character was written, but there was potential for what it could be: a potential for growth in subsequent filmsyes“And so it was, because she herself highlighted at the time the progressive distancing of hypersexualization that Black Widow suffered then, which came to have its own film (not without controversy).
In addition to her success with Marvel, Scarlett Johansson’s career took an important turn in the following years, as she won a Tony for her participation in the play ‘Panorama from the bridge’to which we must add his work in such acclaimed films as ‘Under the Skin’ or ‘Her’: “Suddenly I was like: I still love this job. It rekindled my passion for acting. I felt less anxious“.
Johansson’s latest release in theaters is ‘Asteroid City’, by Wes Anderson, with a stellar cast and which was filmed in Spain. They want her to direct the next film in the ‘Jurassic Park’ saga but it is not closed yet.
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