Scarlett Johansson did not physically play any character from “Her“, film in which he starred joaquin phoenixbut her voice served to simulate Samantha, a virtual assistant with whom the main character falls in love.
Released in 2013 and awarded at the Oscars, the production is about the bond that forms between Samantha and Theodore Twombbly (Phoenix). In one of the scenes of the film, both are sexually intimate until they reach orgasm.
What did Scarlett Johansson say?
Interviewed on the podcast “Armchair Expert”, Scarlett Johansson said that the filming of “Her” was not conventional. She also detailed her experience recording verbal sex scenes with Joaquin Phoenix. Both were in the same studio to record their moans together.
“We tried to do it in one take and he was kind of losing his mind. He left the study. He needed a break”, he explained.
“You never want to hear your voice, and you definitely don’t want to hear what it sounds like when you have an orgasm. You definitely don’t want to hear how you sound having a fake orgasm. It’s so gross. It was very strange,” she added.
Scarlett Johansson: “I felt like an object, they pigeonholed me”
In another interview, this time for the Armchair Expert podcast presented by the actor and comedian Dax Shepard —and reviewed by the newspaper El País—, Johansson said: “I became an object, they pigeonholed me, so much so that I didn’t see any offers coming to me for the things I wanted to do.”
“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I think people think I’m 40 years old.’ Because everyone thought she was older, and because she had been acting for a long time, they typecast me in this hypersexualized role, ”the protagonist of“ Lost in Translation ”commented in a conversation that lasted almost two hours.
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