Happy Birthday Scarlett!
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I doubt she's reading this but you never know..
It seems odd that she has just turned 21..somehow it feels like she has been around a lot longer than that. And if you look at her filmography its easy to understand why. Whilst I have seen one or two of the films she made while still a little girl, I first remember seeing her in "Ghost World" and then in "Eight Legged Freaks" (a weird choice for the world's biggest arachnophobe!). But, like many people I guess, I really fell for her when I saw her in the wonderful "Lost In Translation", for me her best performance to date.
She has entertained me in numerous films since, and not just with her incandescent beauty. In my humble opinion, the mark of a great actor or actress is the ability to play different roles with equal aplomb. Ms Johansson can certainly do that. Her character in "The Perfect Score" - a rebellious Goth - could hardly have been more different, from say, her character in "A Good Woman".
Whilst it met with indifferent reviews (to say the least) I greatly enjoyed "The Island". I heard somewhere that some critic had said a "soap actress" could have played the role as well. As far as I'm concerned, Scarlett did everything that was asked of her in that role - mostly to look incredibly hot in a leather catsuit. (Well, she managed to usurp Alicia Silverstone's position of my official dream woman in the process, so she did a pretty good job of it).
I'm really looking forward to seeing "Match Point" when it opens in the UK next year, in which she plays a femme fatale. Judging by its' score on imdb.com it'll be worth the wait.
There's also a rumour that Andrew Lloyd Webber is in talks with this incredibly beautiful young woman to star in a stage version of "The Sound of Music" in London next year. If that's the case I'd better start getting some of my writing published PDQ - I'll need all the extra cash I can get.
You can read more about Scarlett here: http://www.scarlettjohansson.org/
Copyright © Jonathan Weedon, 22nd November 2005
I doubt she's reading this but you never know..
It seems odd that she has just turned 21..somehow it feels like she has been around a lot longer than that. And if you look at her filmography its easy to understand why. Whilst I have seen one or two of the films she made while still a little girl, I first remember seeing her in "Ghost World" and then in "Eight Legged Freaks" (a weird choice for the world's biggest arachnophobe!). But, like many people I guess, I really fell for her when I saw her in the wonderful "Lost In Translation", for me her best performance to date.
She has entertained me in numerous films since, and not just with her incandescent beauty. In my humble opinion, the mark of a great actor or actress is the ability to play different roles with equal aplomb. Ms Johansson can certainly do that. Her character in "The Perfect Score" - a rebellious Goth - could hardly have been more different, from say, her character in "A Good Woman".
Whilst it met with indifferent reviews (to say the least) I greatly enjoyed "The Island". I heard somewhere that some critic had said a "soap actress" could have played the role as well. As far as I'm concerned, Scarlett did everything that was asked of her in that role - mostly to look incredibly hot in a leather catsuit. (Well, she managed to usurp Alicia Silverstone's position of my official dream woman in the process, so she did a pretty good job of it).
I'm really looking forward to seeing "Match Point" when it opens in the UK next year, in which she plays a femme fatale. Judging by its' score on imdb.com it'll be worth the wait.
There's also a rumour that Andrew Lloyd Webber is in talks with this incredibly beautiful young woman to star in a stage version of "The Sound of Music" in London next year. If that's the case I'd better start getting some of my writing published PDQ - I'll need all the extra cash I can get.
You can read more about Scarlett here: http://www.scarlettjohansson.org/
Copyright © Jonathan Weedon, 22nd November 2005
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