Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut opposite Liev Schreiber in a revival of playwright Arthur Miller’s stage drama “A View from the Bridge,” show producers announced on Monday.
ScarJo, 24, will appear on the Great White Way in the drama set in 1950s America about a Brooklyn dockyard worker obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, played by Johansson.
Preview December 28 and the show is expected to run for 14 weeks.
Other high-profile film actor’s appearing on Broadway this year include Jude law, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Keira Knightley has beaten Scarlett Johansson to land the part of Eliza Doolittle in a new film adaptation of the cinema classic My Fair Lady.
The 24-year-old actress will be starring in the film, directed by lensman Joe Wright. “Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely,” an unidentified friend of the filmmarker told The Daily Telegraph on Sunday.
In August, Wright revealed that Keira would compete with the Golden Globe-winning Scarlett, also 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 original.
The second episode of the 35th season of Saturday Night Live proved a star-studded affiar with Ryan Reynolds guest hosting and his wife Scarlett Johansson stopping by to play his spouse in a skit about a family porcelain fountain firm.
Unlike many child stars-turned-starlets her age, Scarlett Johansson has managed to keep herself from becoming a tabloid mainstay. What’s her secret?
Keeping busybodies out of her beeswax!
How Does Scarlett Maintain Her Privacy: “By not talking about my personal life!” the Iron Man 2 star, 24, reveals in the new issue of Glamour Magazine, on newsstands October 6. “I think that makes a big difference. I go to work, I make movies, I publicize them. I hope people enjoy them. I’m not a relationship expert. I’m not a diet and health expert. I don’t know anything except for movies, other than some Trivial Pursuit kind of information.”Read the rest of this entry »
Scarlett Johansson hopes she’ll wake up one day with the ability to sing like legendary crooner Frank Sinatra.
Well….Good Luck With That, Sister!
The Lost in Translation star admits the Rat Pack singer-actor was one of her childhood heroes and she hopes to emulate his singing voice in the future.
“I always wanted to be Frank Sinatra. Even as a little kid, I always thought I’d grow up and sound like Sinatra. I’m still waiting for that to happen,” she told London’s The Times on Sunday. “A lot of actors are great mimics anyway, and that can relate to music as well. I think all singers are acting, whether it’s their lyrics or another writer’s lyrics, they are performing. I don’t think the two are dissimilar.”
In 2008, Scarlett unsuccessfully launched her singing career with an critically-panned debut album. She is set to release her second album, The Break-Up, a series of duets with close friend Pete Yorn later this month.
Keira Knightley will compete with Scarlett Johansson for the role of Eliza Doolittle in a remake of the 1964 film My Fair Lady.
(Ugh — Can’t Hollywood at least leave My Fair Lady alone? As if it isn’t bad enough that they’re remaking Teen Wolf!)
Last year, the Pirates of the Caribbean star auditioned for the role originally portrayed by sixties sweetheart Audrey Hepburn, and even begun singing lessons in hopes of playing the Cockney florist. But it looks like Keira will have some competition from the Lost In Translation actress, according to Sir Cameron Mackintosh — who is producing the remake.
“I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American. You’d know their names, but I’m not letting on,” Mackintosh told The Telegraph over the weekend.
Who would you like to see play Eliza Doolittle in a My Fair Lady remake?
At least one person won’t be helping Alanis Morissette’s autobiography sail to the top the best-seller’s list.
The “Ironic” hitmaker is planning to blow the lid off her nearly five year relationship with former boyfriend Ryan Reynolds on the pages of an upcoming tell-all — much to the chagrin of ScarJo, 24, who married 32-year-old Ryan in a private ceremony in Canada last September. Alanis’ book plans could spell trouble for the very discreet Scarlett, who enjoys keeping the intimate details of her personal life off the gossip pages. She couldn’t be more disturbed by Alanis’ plans to tell-all, sources tell The National Enquirer. Read the rest of this entry »
Scarlett Johansson hopes film producers will develop a spinoff movie for her character in the new Iron Man movie.
The Hollywood beauty portrays Natasha Romanoff and her alter-ego, sexy Russian spy Black Widow, in the upcoming blockbuster Iron Man 2, and she’s keeping her fingers crossed that she’ll be able to reprise her role for another Marvel comic book adaptation.
“She has many different incarnations and different storylines so I’m hoping she will be able to continue in that way. I’m hoping that if the fans like the character and support the character, we’ll see her again,” Scarlett explains.
Scarlett’s husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, recently landed a deal to have his own superhero spinoff movie based on the X-Men Origins: Wolverine character Deadpool.
And in news that will send Lindsay Lohan’s head popping right off her shoulders, Lost In Translation’s Scarlett Johansson, 24, is at the top of a list of seasoned actresses being considered by director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt to play blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe in a new motion picture. The Daily Mail’s Showbiz Reporter Baz Bamigboye has learned that the Scarlett has been tapped to portray Marilyn in the upcoming film My Week With Marilyn, will be based on the diary of Colin Clark, an employee of Laurence Olivier, who escorted the screen star on a tour of London when she arrived in the British capital to film Olivier’s The Prince And The Showgirl in 1957.
In the diary, Clark speaks about showing Marilyn around Queen Elizabeth’s private apartments at Windsor Castle, as well as other trips.
Kate Hudson, Amy Adams, and Michelle Williams have also been mentioned as possible “Marilyns” for the film.
