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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Has Been On Movie Sets Since Age 9. Someone Asked Her About The '10,000 Hours' It Takes To Become An Expert At A Craft, And She Did Not Hold Back
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When Scarlett Johansson was 9 years old, she made her feature film debut in the 1994 movie North, and for the last three decades, she's been working consistently. So, obviously, she's put in way more than 10,000 hours of work. Now, as she prepares to release her projects on the 2025 movie schedule, she's sharing her feelings on the number of hours it takes to become an expert, and she did not hold back. With the exception of 2000 and 2020, Scarlett Johansson has worked every year since her on-screen debut in 1994. And according to Malcolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve a level of expertise. I think it's safe to say Johansson surpassed that number a very long time ago, and she agrees, as she told THR: Whatever the 10,000 hours part of it is [to master something], I've quadrupled that. I grew up on sets, and I'm a huge sucker for efficiency. Even in my job as an actor, I can read a call sheet and tell you exactly what's going to make us fall behind and what we'll owe the next day. If you take one look at Scarlett Johansson's list of best movies, this claim will immediately be backed up. From Oscar-nominated darlings like 2003's Lost in Translation as well as 2019's Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit to blockbuster smashes like Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, or any of the other great Marvel movies she's done, she has 100% accumulated more than 10,000 hours of work. She also has a resume that cements her as one of the most successful actors working right now. For reference, 10,000 hours equates to about 416 days or roughly a year and change of time. Scarlett Johansson has consistently worked for 31 years. So, it's safe to say she's far beyond your basic expert level. As she said, she's at a point in her career where she can simply read a call sheet and know how long something will take; that's how in tune with the process she is. Now, she's taking that expertise behind the scenes, too. That's right, this year the film Eleanor the Great will come out, and it's directed by Scarlett Johansson. This marks the first feature film the actress has ever helmed, and it's a thrilling jump in her career. The movie stars June Squibb, and while chatting with the outlet about her director, she gushed about Johansson's natural ability behind the camera: With her knowledge as an actress, she knew immediately what I was doing, where I was going and how I was shifting everything. That's wonderful because you don't often have that. I've worked with wonderful directors that don't have that kind of knowledge like Scarlett does. It only seems natural that the 95-year-old actress would have glowing things to say about her director. The Black Widow star has worked on tons of different projects and knows the ins and outs of the business, it makes perfect sense that all her work would translate over to directing. On top of directing, Johansson is also still getting her acting hours in. This year, Jurassic World Rebirth will be released on July 2, and both the actress and her co-stars have been hyping up the film and comparing it to Jurassic Park. She's also set to star in a Wes Anderson film, The Phoenician Scheme, which hits theaters on June 6. So, not only is she adding to her 10,000+ hours, she's also showing off her range as a performer. Overall, I think Scarlett Johansson's words ring true for her career, and she's proven over and over again that she's one of the best. Thankfully, she has no plans of slowing down either, so we'll get to keep watching her expert work for years to come.
Vogue
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
From the Archives: Before Scarlett Johansson Was a Cannes Film Festival Regular, She Was in Vogue
'Power Starlet: Scarlett Letters,' by Sally Singer, was originally published in the March 2004 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue's archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. Scarlett Johansson is lounging at New York's Soho House and talking about transitions, by way of explaining her penchant for slicked-back hair on the red carpet. 'I had a severe mullet when I was doing Girl with a Pearl Earring. It just kept getting more severe until I was seriously mulletized,' she states, ruffling her Warholesque shock of peroxided hair. 'I rocked the mullet for a while, which I loved, but then I decided that I wanted long hair. And a mullet is seriously painful to grow out.' The metamorphosis from mullet to mane, an awkward business of patience and improvisation (all those layers, all those spikes), would ordinarily serve as an apt metaphor of the growing pains from youth to adulthood. But the case of Johansson is one of smooth and triumphant maturation from child actress to full-fledged star. In the last year, she has earned critical respect and a popular audience with her telling performances in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Peter Webber's Girl with a Pearl Earring. In both films she plays lonely, silenced young women who experience awakenings in the company of much older men, themselves in the grip of unfamiliar yearnings. This is perhaps Johansson's greatest cinematic quality: With her oversize lips and growling voice and, most important, her stillness (says Coppola, 'She expresses emotion with very little action'), she renews our sense of mystery about the world. In person, Johansson is no more mysterious than any nineteen-year-old has a right to be. She may have starred in five films since she graduated from high school two years ago—look out for her in The Perfect Score, A Love Song for Bobby Long, and A Good Woman—but certain rites of passage are unavoidable. There's learning to drive, as any New York girl who relocates to the West Coast must do: 'Driving changes your whole life there. Your independence is granted at the DMV.' There's squabbling with her architect dad about the decor of her new L.A. home: 'I'm stuck in the fifties. He's stuck in the sixties. I want a bit of kitsch. He's from Denmark and wants things minimal. I always win because it's my apartment and he says, 'I'll do what you want.' ' And there's struggling with the metaphysics of grownup-ness: 'There's so much pressure on you to change when you get out of high school. . . . It's a harsh reality.'
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson says Bill Murray was 'in a hard place' filming 'Lost in Translation: ''Life has humbled him'
Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray costarred in Sofia Coppola's 2003 hit. Johansson said Murray was in a peculiar "headspace" in a new interview. "I think life has humbled him," Johansson Johansson enjoyed sweet success following her starring turn opposite Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning 2003 hit, Lost in Translation, though she suggests in a new interview that Murray's time on the set was a more complicated affair. The Avengers franchise actress and upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth star reflected on shooting the critically lauded movie in Tokyo at age 17 in a Vanity Fair cover story, saying she was a huge fan of Murray's work in projects like Groundhog Day and What About Bob before joining him on the film, but that he "was in a hard place" while making it. "Everybody was on tenterhooks around him, including our director and the full crew, because he was dealing with his… stuff," she explained. Johansson said she hadn't encountered a costar in such a "headspace" before, which the outlet described as a "diplomatic" assessment. She then ran into Murray at the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special in February, where she observed him warmly interacting with people on set. "He's such a different person now," she said. "I think life has humbled him." She was then pressed on if she meant that Murray was "humbled" by allegations of misconduct levied against him, including when a crew member alleged inappropriate behavior on the set of Aziz Ansari's unfinished movie Being Mortal in 2022, which resulted in the suspension of its production. Johansson replied, 'Certainly, yes — that was really bad. But I also know COVID was a hard thing for him. Life — all these things have led up to him being held accountable for that kind of behavior." She continued, "But you know what? How wonderful that people can change." Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Coppola and Murray for comment on Johansson's remarks. In a 2022 interview with CNBC, Murray described the events on the Being Mortal set as a "difference of opinion," and he later revealed that he had kissed a crew member on the mouth while they were both wearing masks."I dunno what prompted me to do it. It's something that I had done to someone else before, and I thought it was funny, and every time it happened, it was funny," he explained to the New York Times. "I was wearing a mask, and I gave her a kiss, and she was wearing a mask. It wasn't like I touched her, but it was just, I gave her a kiss through a mask, through another mask, to another person. And she wasn't a stranger." Since filming Lost in Translation, Murray has partnered with Coppola on two additional movies: Netflix's 2015 holiday project A Very Murray Christmas and Apple's On the Rocks, a comedy also featuring Rashida Jones. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Was Offered ‘Sex Object' Roles ‘For Years' After ‘Lost in Translation,' Says Bill Murray Was in a ‘Hard Place' on Set: ‘Life Has Humbled Him' Now
Scarlett Johansson remembered in an interview with Vanity Fair her career getting pigeonholed by 'sex object' roles after the breakout success of Sofia Coppola's 2003's 'Lost in Translation,' which cast a 17-year-old Johansson opposite Bill Murray. 'After 'Lost in Translation,' every role that I was offered for years was 'the girlfriend,' 'the other woman,' a sex object — I couldn't get out of the cycle,' Johansson said. 'It sort of felt like, 'Oh, I guess this is my identity now as an actor.' There wasn't much I could do with that.' More from Variety Scarlett Johansson Calls Out Oscars for Snubbing 'Avengers: Endgame' for Best Picture, Says 'I Miss' Marvel Co-Stars but 'Won't Mess' With Black Widow Return Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller Join James Gray's 'Paper Tiger' From Palme d'Or to Best Picture: Cannes' Impact on the Oscars Is Stronger Than Ever Johansson added that her representatives at the time did not help her try to avoid these roles, although 'they were reacting to the norm. The industry worked like that forever.' 'You come into your sexuality and your desirability as part of your growth, and it's exciting to blossom into yourself,' she continued. 'You're wearing the clothes you want, you're expressing yourself, then you suddenly turn around and you're like, 'Wait, I feel like I'm being' — I don't want to say exploited because it's such a severe word. That term is so heavy, but yeah, it was a kind of an exploitation.' 'Lost in Translation' stars Murray as a fading movie star in Tokyo who befriends Johansson's college graduate amid a midlife crisis. Johansson would not go into specifics but did say 'Bill was in a hard place' during the film's production, adding: 'Everybody was on tenterhooks around him, including our director and the full crew, because he was dealing with his… stuff.' Johansson said she never had worked with an actor in Murray's 'headspace' before. The two performers ran into each other earlier this year behind the scenes of 'SNL50,' where Murray was in a much more spirited mood. 'He's such a different person now. I think life has humbled him,' Johansson said, confirming she was partly referring to his behavior on the set of the 2022 movie 'Being Mortal' that resulted in the project being shut down. Murray said earlier this year that he gave a woman on set a kiss through a mask, although he maintained he was just being silly. 'Certainly, yes — that was really bad,' Johansson said. 'But I also know COVID was a hard thing for him. Life — all these things have led up to him being held accountable for that kind of behavior. But you know what? How wonderful that people can change.' Speaking of her experience on 'Lost in Translation' at large, Johansson added: 'I'm pretty proud of how I handled myself. I really just did the work, you know? It's a good tactic for pushing through stuff. Eyes on the prize.' Head over to Vanity Fair's website to read Johansson's cover story in its entirety. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Scarlett Johansson hints the OSCARS are corrupt as she talks 'big tech guys' taking over Hollywood
Scarlett Johansson has landed on the cover of Vanity Fair's June issue to support her new Jurassic Park movie. And in her interview with VF Hollywood Correspondent David Canfield the beauty touched on the impact tech has had on not just the movie industry but also the Academy Awards. The mother of two even made a dig at the awards show. 'These are people that are funding studios. It's all these big tech guys that are funding our industry, and funding the Oscars, and so there you go,' said the ex-wife of Ryan Reynolds. 'I guess we're being muzzled in all these different ways, because the truth is that these big tech companies are completely enmeshed in all aspects of our lives. I don't know how you fight that.' The Marvel star also said she is worried about AI having not enough limits. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) 'There has to be some agreed-upon set of boundaries in order for [ AI ] to not be detrimental. I wish more people in the public eye would support and speak out about that—I don't know why that's not the case,' said Scarlett. And the former child star also addressed working as a kid. 'Making decisions on your own—like, adult decisions as a kid—it's a dangerous thing, right?' she asked. Scarlett said she was proud of herself for handling a tough star while filming Lost in Translation: 'I'm pretty proud of how I handled myself. I really just did the work, you know? It's a good tactic for pushing through stuff. Eyes on the prize.' And she also touched on costar Bill Murray. 'Bill [Murray] was in a hard place,' Johansson said. 'Everybody was on tenterhooks around him, including our director and the full crew, because he was dealing with his…stuff.' She'd never encountered an actor in that kind of 'headspace. Earlier this year, Johansson ran into Murray at Saturday Night Live's 50th-anniversary special. 'He's such a different person now,' she noted. 'I think life has humbled him.' When asked about the recent allegations of misconduct against Murray, Johansson said, 'That was really bad. But I also know COVID was a hard thing for him. Life—all these things have led up to him being held accountable for that kind of behavior…But you know what? How wonderful that people can change.' Scarlett will star in Jurassic World Rebirth, premiering July 2 and her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, premiers this week at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. On being on the receiving end of Michael Che's jokes on SNL 's Weekend Update: 'I feel like it's almost my responsibility to come up with some way to burn Michael back. Retaliation, I'd say, should be expected. Others on the show could support this desire. Know what I mean?' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) And she won't be going back to Marvel: 'I miss my buddies and really would love to be with them forever, but what works about the character is that her story is complete. I don't want to mess with that. For fans too—it's important for them.' Her celebrity pals also talked about her. 'She always seemed confident about directing—since I met her, when she was 17.' – Sofia Coppola 'There's a leadership quality inherent in everything she does.' – Robert Downey Jr. 'I was amazed at how open she was. There's no playing around. There is absolutely no shit about her at all. Who she is is who you're getting all the time. I do think she likes herself—I think Scarlett enjoys being Scarlett. This is positive, because it allows her to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.' I think that's how she goes through life, basically.' – June Squibb The shoot was by Lachlan Bailey for Vanity Fair.
