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Scarlett Johansson Discusses Her Career and Newborn Daughter with “W” Magazine

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The 30-year-old, who began her acting career when she was just seven, says she’s wanted to act ever since she can remember. However, things didn’t look too promising when she was starting out.

“When you’re a kid, they send you on a lot of commercial auditions, and I was terrible at selling things,” she tells the magazine. “I never got those parts. I remember crying in the subway, and my mom said, ‘Look—let’s forget it. Do something else.'”

“And I replied, ‘No. You can’t take this away from me. I want to be an actor!’ Waiting for the B train, I had my come-to-Jesus moment,” she adds.

From then on, Johansson decided she’d only audition for films, and it proved to be the turning point in her career.

Spending most of her life in the public eye has never bothered the actress, who notes, “Everyone has seen my breasts!”

Of all her varied movie roles, Scarlett tells W that playing Black Widow in the Avengers movies was the one that shocked people the most, but she really connected with the character.

“I had done my research, and the Black Widow character resonated with me,” she explains. “She is dark and has faced death so many times that she has a deep perspective on the value of life…I think of her that way.”

“Black Widow is a superhero, but she’s also human,” Johansson continues. “She’s small, but she’s strong. It’s hard not to admire her.”

Scarlett also reveals that she leads a very private life with her husband, Romain Dauriac, and their newborn daughter Rose. “When she came out of me,” Johansson says of the baby, I was so surprised,” she says of baby Rose.

“I had a very strong picture in my mind of what my baby would look like,” she continues. “And, of course, she is completely different. Perfect, but not what I’d imagined. Now, of course, I can’t picture her any other way.”

Johansson reprises her Black Widow role in the latest installment of The Avengers franchise, Avengers: Age of Ultron, opening nationwide May 1.


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