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Scarlett Johansson: ‘I was cast for my desirability — that’s shifted’

The actress opens up about her wilderness years, taking on tech giants and the lesson she learnt aged nine

An old-fashioned film star in a red-carpet-worthy flowing white dress, she shuns social media (“It’s just fundamentally not me”), but in person there is nothing distant about her: she is warm, blunt, a little scatty and drily funny. Now 40, she has been an actress since she was nine and is a two-time Oscar nominee whose career highlights include Lost in Translation(lonely tourist), Under the Skin(killer alien) and Marriage Story(conflicted divorcee). Which is hard when you’re a young actor, but at that time I didn’t have any children.” She now has two: Rose, ten, with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and Cosmo, three, with her husband Colin Jost, a comedian and Saturday Night Live regular.

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