In this coming Sunday’s PARADE, Contributing Editor James Kaplan talks in depth with gifted young actress Scarlett Johansson.
Below, you can read our Web exclusive interview with Johansson, and see what she has to say about dodging paparazzi and why she’ll never be late to a movie set. Then, photographer Andrew Eccles reveals what went on behind the scenes at PARADE’s photo shoot with Johansson.
On avoiding the paparazzi…
“There’s plenty of restaurants and neighborhoods that I just try to avoid. It sucks—especially in New York, because you want to feel like you can walk around anywhere. But it’s okay. I think it’s an adjustment.
It’s horrible that you have to make the adjustment, but being as I can’t change the state of where we are now, and I’m sure it will never change, you just have to make the adjustment. What’s the alternative? I don’t want to move to the middle of nowhere. I’m a city kid.”
On being a highly responsible person…
“I’m very responsible when I’m working. I’ve just been doing it for a long time, and I’m not the kind of person who is going to show up to work three hours late, or maybe not come at all. That’s just not who I am.
That just has to do with the fact that I understand that everybody else comes to work, and we would all like to get an extra four hours of sleep, but what can you do?”…“But [outside of work] I don’t really have any responsibility right now. It’s not like I have kids.
I’m not raising a younger sibling. I’m not supporting anybody financially. But at the same time, I can take care of myself. My mother may disagree. Of course, moms always do: [imitates her mother] “My baby, you’re just a child….”
On looking like a boy…
“I don’t think my features are entirely feminine. Yes, I have full lips and obviously I have no facial hair. But…take somebody like Penelope Cruz. She’s so feminine.
Think about it. She has, like, long eyelashes, and to me she just looks very feminine. When I wake up in the morning and I have no makeup on, like right now, I think I look like a young boy.”
And she’s funny, too…
To try to get all the details right, James Kaplan asked Johansson to tell him the provenance of everything she was wearing. And she did—shoes, Alaia; T-shirt, Balenciaga; wristwatch, Chanel…. Then she looked at Kaplan very cheekily and said, “And what are you wearing?”
Even better, she eats when she’s hungry!
At the PARADE photo shoot, there was a table full of goodies to eat. According to Kaplan, Johansson was not at all neurotic about the food. “She was hungry, so she ate some coffee cake. And then complained that it didn’t have enough butter in it!”
#1 hit maker-producer Timbaland wants to make some money off bald train wreck, Britney Spears. Timbaland says he wants to help Britney.
“I feel her pain, it really bothers me. I’m the type of person who tries to save the world.
I just want to take her away, go overseas, and work [things] out… I asked Justin, ‘How would you feel about me working with Britney?’ I had to ask him that. I said, ‘Would you do it with me?‘”
Apparently, Justin didn’t respond. Haha. Hehe. * Burp *
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes may be expecting a baby sometime soon.
The weird couple went to West Hollywood baby boutique last week looking for items for a boy’s nursery.
The TomKat friend was overheard saying, “We want to be prepared for a baby boy.” We’re told the interested themes for the room were: sports, nursery rhyme, cartoon and the color blue.
The estimated cost for the eggshell blue-themed room alone is $45,000 – and would include a custom-made blue and white antique crib, blue bedding and blue walls with floating clouds. The shop was also given a deadline of April 15, three days before Suri’s first birthday, to come up with the designs.
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Ann Coulter’s emailed response to Adam Nagourney about her John Edwards crack:
C’mon it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.
Did any of these guys say anything after I made the same remark about Al Gore last summer? Why not? What were they trying to say about Al Gore with their silence?
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Joe Francis looks like a camel, acts like a savvy business man. The Girls Gone Wild founder offered the talentless Antonella Barba ho a $250,000 contract to appear in a video as a celebrity host!
Joe said, “We have reached out to Antonella Barba through her family and are trying to reach her directly in order to offer her a hosting job for one of our upcoming video projects.
Just like the American Idol judges, we at Girls Gone Wild are looking for a girl next door, with sexiness, attitude, a carefree spirit and a presence that will command the attention of the Nation.“
Only $250,000! Isn’t that an insult? I wanna believe my crotch is worth at least a million. Guys, I know you wanna believe your dick’s worth at least $2 million. We’re worth it, dammit!!
Antonella should take this offer tho. She has no voice and no future outside of porn.
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No wonder Reese was glowing at the Oscars! I think her and Jake would look awesome together.
Reese Witherspoon spent the weekend in New York with Jake Gyllenho. She visited his penthouse in Greenwich Village on March 1st.
So how did Jakey Pooh thank her? By going to her place the next day at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to tap that ass!
Ryan Phillippe, being the scrub/has been that he is, is apparently mad as hell. He’s been having blue balls since their split and he wants Reese back.
Ryan has been begging his soon-to-be ex-wife to give their relationship another shot and that he is determined to do whatever it takes to win back the love of his life.
Show me a man who doesn’t ask for a second chance, and I’ll show you a woman with a dick and a beard! Uh,… in other words, there’s no such thing! Men always come running back. Good for Reese.
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Case in point: Lindsay Lohan.
