Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2005 20:43:52 GMT -4
Yep, she sounds like a little back tracking diva
From US ELLE 2004
From US ELLE 2004
But if Johansson can be blasé about the story, I'm finding it hard to be. Like millions of others, I watched Murray fail to mention Johansson when he won a Golden Globe award. Then Coppola repeated the slight at the Academy Awards. You've got to wonder why they would so pointedly ignore the superb performance of an actress whose contribution was as integral to the ineffable magic of that movie as either of theirs. I assume Johansson must be stung by the omissions. But she doesn't let it show.
Asked about the Star story, Johansson says laconically, "People will always speculate about the 'actual behind the scenes.' If you let what everybody says affect you, you'd be a total basket case." She admits that Coppola spoke to her sparingly on set but says that they had a "silent communication." Of Murray, she says that she's always been a huge fan. "I think we both felt kind of awkward," she adds, since they plunged into filming just moments after meeting for the first time. It's an awkwardness that worked beautifully in a movie about two lost souls tentatively merging far from home - which makes you wonder whether the supposed "freezing out" of Johansson on set was in fact a strategy on the part of a director who needed her leading lady to seem alienated and alone. I'd love to check this theory with Coppola, but she was "unavailable" for comment.
So was a roster of Johansson's costars, who declined to be interviewed about her - a collective silence that, given other whisperings along the Hollywood-Manhattan grapevine about temper tantrums and other high-handed behavior, has some suggesting that fame is going to Johansson's head. ("Starlet" Johansson is one unkind nickname circulating.)
So was a roster of Johansson's costars, who declined to be interviewed about her - a collective silence that, given other whisperings along the Hollywood-Manhattan grapevine about temper tantrums and other high-handed behavior, has some suggesting that fame is going to Johansson's head. ("Starlet" Johansson is one unkind nickname circulating.)