Scarlett Johansson Talks Leaked Photos In Vanity Fair December 2011
November 1, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Scarlett Johansson covers Vanity Fair December 2011.
A preview of her cover has been posted and VanityFair.com made the discussion about her hacked, leaked #ScarlettJohanssoning photos the lede. Well, why not?
…even though Johasson already addressed the scandal on CNN when doing charity work. She gave a sit-down and admitted back in September: “I think the question is sort of redundant [to ask about privacy]. Who doesn’t want to protect their own privacy? Just because you’re in the spotlight or just because you’re an actor or make films doesn’t mean that you’re not entitled to your own personal privacy. No matter what the context, when that is sieged in some way it feels unjust, it feels wrong. I’ve gotten that response from many people that I’ve met now. They say ‘how do you deal with the invasion of privacy?’ I don’t know. To me it’s an adjustment. There are certainly instances I think where you give a lot of yourself, finally you just kind of put your foot down and say ‘wait, I’m taking it back.’”
But that wasn’t a fleshed-out enough retort for VF who went for the kill and somehow got Johansson to freely discuss the whens and wheres of taking those photos of herself.
It’s already proven and admitted that the two photos are real; her lawyer asserted as much, in order to claim copyright infringement and force the photos down. So she’s not denying them, unlike the obviously-real photos of Not Blake. Well, Johansson says her photos are three-years old, she took them and sent them freely to Ryan Reynolds before they were hacked from either her email or her insecure BlackBerry. And she’s not against shooting an adult movie… in principle.
On when and why she took the nudes: “Those are old, from three years ago… 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.”
On her divorce: “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.”
On Barack Obama pulling a bait and switch: “We’re all guilty of being idealistic, I and everyone who voted for him.”
On shaking hands with filthy randoms, and the hypochondria of her and Woody Allen: “He shakes a lot of hands,” Johansson explains. “I’ll squirt some [Purell] 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.”
On she and Allen taking a break from working together: “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.”
On her role in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge in 2009 opposite Liev Schreiber: “[It] 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.” – via Vanity Fair.
PHOTO CREDIT – VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE
