Johansson tells studios: don't make this film
Scarlett Johansson tells studios she sometimes advises them not to greenlight their own projects because they lack an audience.
Why it matters
Actors' choice to reject scripts, based on whether audiences want the film, shapes which stories get told in Hollywood.
In Australia. Australian viewers may see fewer hollow blockbusters if major studios take similar selective approaches to project greenlit.
Key facts
- The Oscar nominee told the Los Angeles Times she gets acting offers from major Hollywood studios that make her question why the film exists at all.
- "Sometimes I get studio projects that I have to say, 'I don't think you should make this.
- I don't know who you're making this for.
- It seems irresponsible to make this,'" she said in a recent interview.
- Her studio work has been dominated by the Black Widow role in Marvel films, though she balances tentpoles with independent dramas like her latest, Paper Tiger.
- Johansson spent much of this year filming The Exorcist: Martyrs and The Batman 2, with filmmaker Ari Aster's Scapegoat up next.
- Johansson bases her role choices on a simple question: does an audience want this movie, or am I just making it for myself?
