Smoking Section: Queen, Scarlett Johansson, Feist
The Smoking Section got a surprise call from Queen guitarist Brian May, who phoned with cool news about his exciting new project: In September, Queen (with singer Paul Rodgers) will release their first new album in thirteen years, tentatively titled The Cosmos Rocks. Queen’s new chapter began in 2005, when May and drummer Roger Taylor teamed up with Rodgers (Bad Company and Free) for a joyously received global tour. “It was clear that if we were to go out again, we needed some new stuff,” says May. “It needed to be an ongoing, living, evolving, organic unit. This album has done that.” So, coinciding with Cosmos’ release, Queen and Rodgers will hit the road again. (Euro dates sold out in minutes — look out for U.S. dates next spring.) “It’s wonderful to know that people want to hear us out there,” says May. “It’s been a real voyage of discovery.” He adds that Freddie Mercury’s spirit lives on: “I often think of Freddie smiling — I think he’s enjoying it.”
Frankly, we’re pretty impressed by Scarlett Johansson’s first real foray into music, Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits songs. After time-consuming attempts at finding a producer to help her nail the sounds she’d imagined, Johansson met her match in Dave Sitek, guitarist for TV on the Radio. “I knew I wanted a sort of dreamlike, ambient sound, and we didn’t want to shy away from the cinematic aspects of the songs,” Johansson tells the S.S. “Dave and I had the same vision, and it turned out to be everything I’d imagined.” With musicians like Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Nick Zinner, the crew holed up at a Louisiana studio, and the bayou vibe crept into recordings like “Green Grass,” “Town With No Cheer” and, of course, “I Wish I Was in New Orleans.” (David Bowie makes an appearance, doing backing vocals.) Though Waits hasn’t yet heard Johansson’s takes on his tunes, Johansson doesn’t seem nervous: “Once we started recording, I became less fearful of encountering Tom Waits in a dark room with a mallet.”
“How surreal is this?” asked Feist a few days before launching her U.S. tour. “I’m sitting with Rolling Stone in Mr. Hooper’s store!” Yes, the Smoking Section couldn’t resist joining the Canuck on the set of Sesame Street, where, backed by Elmo, Telly and a colony of penguins, Feist delivered an educational rendition of her smash, “1 2 3 4.” As a child, Feist would stage plays with her puppets Rat-Fink and Smurfy; as a teen, she joined a squad of puppeteers performing in children’s festivals. “There was a moment when I stood at the crossroads and decided between puppets or music,” she says. “Today almost sparked a tear in my eye, seeing things come full circle.”
23-year-old Scarlett Johansson ‘too old’ for role
Thank goodness for her blossoming music career. Scarlett Johansson is now being turned down for acting roles.
The 23-year-old actress was deemed “too old” to play the starring role in the new period romance Napoleon and Betsy. She will be replaced by French-born English actress Emma Watson, best known for her role as Hermoine Granger in the Harry Potter series.
According to The Daily Mail, Watson celebrated her 18th birthday on April 15. Her biggest gift was one she gave herself - a legal adult, she gained access to the $20 million dollars she earned acting in the series over the course of eight years. She will earn roughly $5 million for the sixth Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” which she’s now shooting.
She was cast as the best friend of boy wizard Harry Potter at the age of nine - her only prior experience grade-school plays.
In the new film, set for release in 2009, Watson will play Betsy Balcombe, a young woman trapped on an isolated British island who falls in love with the imprisoned Napoleon.
Johansson is still involved in the project, but as co-producer for the Indie flick written and directed by British filmmaker, Benjamin Ross. She’s recently signed with Warner Bros.-owned label Atco/Rhino, and her soul-driven album is set for a late May release.
O Sister, what art thou?
A new film sheds light on how sibling rivalry can turn your closest friend into your most hated foe, writes Deirdre Reynolds
She’s supposed to be your closest friend and confidante. Yet in reality, she’s often the biggest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.
The latest film to hit cinemas here shows how the harmless hair-pulling that goes on between young sisters across the world can degenerate into full-blown battle.
Based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl charts one of the most explosive cases of sibling rivalry in history. It tells the tale of aristocratic sisters Anne and Mary Boleyn, who went to war over sex-mad monarch King Henry VIII in the 16th century. And the true story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, reveals how women who are flung together by birth can wind up becoming bitter rivals rather than bosom buddies.
For sisters flocking to see the flick together over the weekend, there may have been a few moments of uncomfortable silence. And while pinching your clothes, helping themselves to the last of your favourite perfume, or eyeing up your man might not be on the same level as tearing the heart of the Tudor palace in two, they underline the complex blend of backstabbing and loyalty that define sisterhood, according to psychologist Dorothy Rowe.
Party girl pals/catfight combatants Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie may have propelled the term ‘frenemy’ to the urban dictionary, but for its origins look no further than your own family.
Dr Rowe, who wrote My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds, reckons most women both love and loathe their skin and blister at various times throughout their life.
“The reason I came up with the title was to try and encapsulate that deeply ambivalent relationship between most siblings,” she added.
“Up to now, psychologists and therapists have been looking at the relationship between the child and mother; but while doing that, they’ve steadfastly ignored the relationship between siblings.
“Yet we all know how important siblings are — they’re the people we have the longest relationship with and it doesn’t matter how old you get, the connection is always there. I decided to look at how siblings form an attachment to one another and explain the dynamic that develops.”
And although the study looks at both brothers and sisters, Dr Rowe says things usually get more complicated between the girls.
“Siblings can demolish us,” she added. “You know those frequent occurrences, when your sister says something which to an outsider might seem quite banal, but you’ve been struck through the heart with an arrow by it.
“You know the other so well. They know the things that upset you most and those that give you deepest pleasure.
“The book is about both brothers and sisters, but I think women talk about it more. A lot of men aren’t troubled by not keeping up with relatives or they leave it to their wives.”
Just because you’re related, there’s no guarantee you’re going to get on, Dr Rowe explained. But whether you bond or bicker, your filial feelings could colour your relationships for the rest of your life.
“If you look at conflicts around the world, the ones that are hardest to resolve involve some kind of family relationship,” she said. “The war between the Israelis and Palestinians is effectively a family squabble. Likewise, in Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants fought throughout the years but they also bedded each other. There’s no genetic difference between these groups and they row like siblings.”
She added: “Siblings are our first peer group, so even when we go to school and work we often see others in terms of our relationship with them — sometimes causing us to make really bad mistakes. For instance, if you’ve got a female boss, you might immediately assume she’s going to be as nasty to you or look after you the way your sister did.”
And sibling rivalry starts the second an interloper arrives in the house to steal the affections of mum and dad. Whether you’re the halo-wearing first born, overshadowed middle-child or attention-seeking youngest, your placement in the clan can determine whether you enjoy girly get-togethers with your sis, or barely stand the sight of each other in the years to come, says Rowe.
“When you’re an only child, you’re in this nice situation of being treated like a prince or princess by your parents or grandparents. Suddenly, this thing turns up and you’re displaced, and it can cause tremendous trauma for the child — even when the parents deal with it well.
“I remember one young woman who found out she was pregnant with her second child and did all the things you’re supposed to, like telling her daughter about the baby in mummy’s tummy, involving her in shopping for the baby and giving her a present the day the baby was born. She thought everything was fine until her daughter turned around and said, ‘Couldn’t you have kept that thing inside you for another while?’”
She added: “The older sibling is a trailblazer, while the younger ones test the limits set by them. Within families, there’s usually a ‘good’ sibling and a ‘bad’ one and it can be difficult to break out of that mould.”
No matter how many years pass, it can be impossible to view your sister as anyone other that the girl who mutilated your beloved teddy bear, snitched to your parents when you smoked pot in college, or beat you down the aisle, Dr Rowe revealed: “Most people I spoke to say that when they’re with their siblings, they feel like a swan — calm on the surface but paddling underneath.”
And society may frown on it, but don’t be afraid to give a malicious sis the flick.
The author, who confessed to having a tumultuous relationship with her own big sister, said: “Women can feel guilty if they haven’t fulfilled what is expected of them by society and so they maintain a relationship with a difficult sibling and do things for them they wouldn’t for a troublesome friend.
“We get caught up in this thing of blood being thicker than water. But I think you’ve got to work out the cost of keeping in touch with someone who really isn’t on your side. If she was a friend who was consistently horrible, you’d drop her.”
But provided she isn’t trying to get her claws into your hubbie, a la Anne Boleyn, it is possible to make her a mate — and not just a relation.
And in spite of the contradictory concoction of devotion, rage, envy, competitiveness and loyalty they inspire, sisters can be the best friend a girl will ever have.
Dr Rowe joked: “I think sisters are more likely to row over who’s got the better job nowadays, than over a man like the Boleyns! But once there isn’t an insurmountable level of resentment there, it’s possible to have a great relationship and look after each other in that way that only sisters do.”
SISTER ACT: Celebrity siblings
Elle and Mimi Macpherson: What do you do when you live in the shadow of a big sister known simply as ‘The Body’? Make a sex tape, silly.
Although already a celeb in Oz, supermodel Elle’s baby sis hit international headlines in the late Nineties when she starred in an X-rated home video with then boyfriend Michael Hellwig.
It’s not the only attempt the presenter has made to distance herself from her wholesome sibling.
Black sheep Mimi, who has a string of drink-driving convictions to her name, changed her name when she set up her whale watching business Down Under.
But the business took off when she reverted to her famous family surname.
Ashlee and Jessica Simpson: Erstwhile raven-haired rocker Ashlee appears to be morphing into busty big sister Jessica by the day. And psychologists could probably have a field day with the reasons why she’s coming over all Single White Female on her own sister.
Manager dad Joe moved the family to LA in a bid to boost bombshell Jessica’s profile — at the expense of her younger sister’s budding ballet career back home.
Crooner Jessica shot to fame on MTV reality show Newlyweds after saying ‘I do’ to pop hunk Nick Lachey.
But wannabe Ashlee became the butt of showbiz jokes, especially after a reddening lip-syncing incident on Saturday Night Live.
These days, though, Ashlee appears to be the paparazzi’s favourite since going public on her relationship with Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz.
Kylie and Dannii Minogue: In 1980s Melbourne, two young sisters were on the path to stardom.
However, one of the starry-eyed pair could only dream of duplicating the success of the other, who was already a regular on top TV variety show Young Talent Time.
In those days, it was younger sibling Dannii who stole the show. But after landing a part in Neighbours, the scales tipped permanently in favour of petite pop queen Kylie. Both sisters have embarked on music, acting and fashion careers, with Kylie triumphing each time.
Despite the reversal of fortune, though, Dannii denies that there’s any sibling rivalry seething beneath the mega-watt smiles: “We were raised in a family of love and support and that has not changed.”
The Corrs: While most siblings are busy fighting over the remote control, Dundalk clan The Corrs lived in perfect harmony — literally.
Trio of sisters Caroline, Sharon and Andrea, and brother Jim, spent their teenage years practicing music in his bedroom. And they finally hit the big time performing at the Summer Olympics in 1996. But despite being surrounded by sizzling siblings, it was ethereal beauty Andrea who hogged the limelight.
And as the rest of the family swap touring for teething, 33-year-old Andrea, who’s dating multi-millionaire Brett Desmond, has a monopoly on the media’s attention.
‘We now laugh about the awful things that we did to each other’
Sisters Anne-Marie, 28, and Patricia McKenna, 25, from Moynalty, Co Meath, reveal how they turned a troubled relationship around to become best friends as well as family.
Anne-Marie says: “Patricia and I were not at all close when we were young. As there are five girls in the family, you had to choose to team up with the strong ones to survive; Patricia was not one of the strong ones — I never chose her. She was so gullible and did almost anything we asked her to do and she always got in trouble for it.
“However, when I finished college and got a job, I was living at home and realised that I was lost; Trish took me under her wing. We went out together every other weekend and had a great laugh. We’re still really close and I even asked her to be my bridesmaid! We now laugh about the manic childhood that we had and the awful things that we did to each other.”
Patricia says: “Anne-Marie is three years older than me. When we were growing up, there were five of us around the same age so I stuck with whichever gang suited the situation! Anne-Marie and I went to the same primary and secondary school, but I can honestly say that we weren’t friends until I was about 20. She was always studying, whereas I preferred to daydream. When we both moved to Dublin for college we lived together for a year, but never really spoke.
“I suppose we didn’t really have that much in common. It all changed in 2004; she broke up with her boyfriend when I was in my final year of college. We started doing things together — socialising, going out drinking — and became good friends. We’re still very close. I think she mellowed a little and I started taking life a bit more seriously.”
Musical star Scarlett Johansson
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks Scarlett Johansson is “a natural star for musicals”.
The music composer - who is responsible for shows including ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Cats’ and ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ - met Scarlett to discuss the possibility of her appearing in the London theatre production of ‘The Sound of Music’.
He said: “We had a lunch together - I think she would have been brilliant. She certainly has the voice to do it.
“It was a lunch that started off at 12.30pm and went on till after five because it was a lovely sunny day and we were performing various songs from musicals. She is terrific - a natural star for musicals.”
Andrew also revealed he recently had a hit song in the UK singles charts, but refused to reveal which one.
He added: “I have had a chart hit that was not credited to me, yes - more recently than you might think. It went pretty much all of the way. I just love doing things that wrong-foot people.”
Scarlett can soon be heard debuting her vocal talents on her new album, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’.
Fan pays £20,000 to date Scarlett
A Scarlett Johansson fan has paid £20,000 for a 20-minute date with the Hollywood actress in an online auction for charity Oxfam.
The star will be accompanied by the winning bidder at the world premiere of her new film He’s Just Not That Into You in the US in July.
The UK-based bidder has not been identified, but goes by the nickname Bossnour on eBay.
An Oxfam spokesperson said the money raised to help poverty was “fantastic”.
The fan will also have their hair and make-up done for the evening before being chauffeured to the event with a guest.
Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Anniston, Jennifer Connelly and Ben Affleck also star in the romantic comedy, which is based on the popular self-help book of the same title.
Make-over
The Oxfam spokesperson said: “To get £20,000 for a 20-minute date and a pair of tickets to help us fight poverty is fantastic.
“All of this money will be used to help us fight poverty in countries all over the world.”
Meanwhile, Oxfam is offering a similar auction to meet actress Kristin Davis a the Sex and the City movie premiere in New York in May.
The winner will also get a make-over and a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes.
Davis said: “The great thing about this auction is that 100% proceeds will go directly to Oxfam, a charity that I love very much and I’ve travelled with a lot.”
Natalie Portman on Britney, good deeds and Scarlett Johansson’s breasts
It’s so dull when the first line states that the star arrives wearing “not a scrap of make-up”. I could pretend that Natalie Portman had false eyelashes that fell into her tea and hot-pink lipstick smeared across her cheek as gawpers in this Santa Fe cafe turned to stare. And the great thing is, she’d probably play along.
I first interviewed Portman, in her home town of Long Island, when she was 16. Now, 10 years on, she is as sweet – and clear-faced – as I remember her. Back then, after the interview, we almost collapsed in K-Mart when we found promotional toothbrushes bearing her Star Wars image. Today, in Santa Fe, where she is shooting Jim Sheridan’s Brothers, we shop at Wholefoods for ingredients to make vegan cupcakes with the actors who play her and Tobey Maguire’s children. Yes, the girl who became a star in Leon, aged 12, is playing a mum. “I knew how to act like an adult from a really young age. I could turn it on and off. They’d say, ‘She doesn’t seem like a kid, she seems like an adult.’ Now, it kicks me in the butt, and people think, ‘She doesn’t seem like an adult, she seems like a kid.’ ”
Portman has close friends who are having kids now, such as the flame-haired actress Bryce Dallas Howard, who, when they were teens at summer camp, played Helena to her Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Portman feels a while from motherhood herself, though she is in a serious relationship with Nathan Bogle, the British model and a founder of the Rag & Bone label, whom she politely refuses to talk about. She has consistently declined to talk about any beau, but does say that, as an only child, “I always want to be with someone who has siblings. I will never date another only child”. She pauses. “But I think I have dated exclusively first children.” Harvard, which she famously dropped out of Hollywood to attend, is “70% only and first children”, she says, “which makes sense. My career would not have happened if I had brothers or sisters. There’s no way my parents would have allowed one kid to be a star”.
Although quite a few films are now made in this artsy New Mexico town, Portman is the biggest thing to happen to Santa Fe in some time. To begin with, there’s that face – nose, eyebrows, cheekbones and chin of glass – paired with round, soulful eyes and the softest mouth. Because of that face, because of the slender lines of her body, she has the reputation for being the most elegant of young actresses, and, yes, she has a jade cashmere sweater, skinny blue jeans, a check coat that ties smartly at her tiny waist. But she’s also wearing big, green, deeply inelegant wellies, because she has found the cheaper a shoe is, the more likely it is to be vegan. Hence her launch of a shoe line for Te Casan, with all profits going to the Nature Conservancy.
“Basically, I did it out of a lack of choice. Stella McCartney does great shoes, but they’re expensive and very fashiony. I wanted a mary-jane shoe without leather. I’ve been getting stuff from Target, which is de facto vegan because it’s so cheap. But I did need some shoes that weren’t made of canvas or plastic.”
With values instilled by her American artist mother and Israeli doctor father, good deeds are par for the Portman course. Producing the first-ever iTunes charity album, she raised an enormous amount of money for the Foundation for International Community Assistance (Finca), which provides micro-financing for the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs.
Last year, Portman went to Rwanda to make a documentary about endangered gorillas for the Discovery Channel. This year, she begins a deal with Participant Productions, the makers of Syriana, which has an ethical mandate to make films that promote social change. Her first movie as director will be an adaptation of A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz’s history of his family and Israel. The scope is vast, and Portman, who was born in Jerusalem, is glad she did six months of college there, if only because it brought back her Hebrew.
It’s hard to imagine that in 2002, she co-hosted a new-year party with Britney Spears. What on earth did the two have in common? “We both had the same first job. We both understudied for an off-Broadway musical called Ruthless. I never met her, but I took over from her when she left to join the Mickey Mouse Club. So we connected over that. She invited me to a few things and my guy friends at college said, ‘We have to go.’ I’m sad to see how everyone’s treating her now.”
Now that Britney’s star has fallen and she is mocked as coming from poor white trash, does Portman think there are also stabilising advantages in belonging to an ethnic minority?
“Absolutely. I identify very strongly as Jewish, but I could be Indian, Puerto Rican . . . Anything that gives you a cultural identity makes you know who you are and grounds you, even as a young girl trying on identities.” She sighs. “Any time I see something about Britney, I close it. I can’t look at it. I’m usually interested in gossip, but this makes my stomach hurt.”
She feels extremely lucky to have missed the worst of the paparazzi madness, with the videographers and bloggers. “I was allowed to establish myself when it wasn’t this crazy. I was going to high school and college and there were no paparazzi after me. But that was only five years ago. It wouldn’t happen now.”
One such piece of tabloid bait is Scarlett Johansson, with whom Portman shares the screen in The Other Boleyn Girl. They play sisters in a love triangle with Henry VIII. “It’s a catfight movie.” Highbrow catfighting? “Not really highbrow,” she laughs. “Have you read the book?”
She catches herself, then does her best to think her way into promoting a movie that is getting mixed reviews. “These two sisters love each other so much, and are made out to be rivals by the values of society that uses women as pawns.”
She doesn’t want us to think the film fosters rivalry between women. “I hate that – it drives me crazy. The truth is, it’s hard to find a really great girl, but when you find one, it’s the best. The vast majority of my friends are guys, but the ones I talk to about everything are my girls.”
Back when Portman was 14, she was the face of Isaac Mizrahi, who would go on to cause a minor scandal at the Golden Globes two years ago, when he grabbed Johansson’s breasts. “Seriously, I would want to grab them. She’s got beautiful ones, but, Isaac, that was not so appropriate.”
And, of course, while Portman is famously Jewish, Johansson is a lesser-known Jew (because of her Scandinavian father, she’s called “the kosher Danish”). When Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek made a movie together, all the headlines blared “the Hot Tamales”. What should the media label a film starring two Jewish girls? Portman doesn’t miss a beat.
“The Hot Knishes,” she says, referring to the Jewish delicacy. She says how good Johansson is, adding that in her own forthcoming film, My Blueberry Nights, Rachel Weisz “will knock your socks off”. But her favourite co-star of all time?
“Stephen Fry, when we made V for Vendetta. I wanted to spend all my time with him. He is awesome.” She thinks they gelled because they have anachronistic personalities. “I would much rather read a book or write a letter than watch television or send an e-mail. And I value good spelling. Spelling errors are a total pet peeve, which is embarrassing.”
Not that she is the paragon of refinement that her face would lead you to believe. “My Hallowe’en costume the last year of high school was a hooker,” she admits. An elegant, gamine hooker? “No,” she laughs, tea dripping onto her cashmere. “Just a hooker, with lots of bad make-up.”
Bid to get Scarlett’s Mary film shot in Lothian
TOP Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson could be heading to West Lothian to film her latest movie.
Last year, it emerged the actress had been signed up to play Mary, Queen of Scots, the tragic monarch who was born at Linlithgow Palace. The movie’s production team are currently touring the UK looking for locations and West Lothian Council plans to get in touch to put their case.
Provost Tom Kerr said: “This will be a major international production which could rival the success of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.
“We plan to make the production company aware of the importance of Linlithgow’s connection with Mary, Queen of Scots and to consider filming in our historic town.”
In 2004, scores of fans descended on the tiny West Lothian village of Dechmont when George Clooney was in the area as producer of the film The Jacket.
Martyn Day, the council’s development and transport leader, said a new film about Mary Stuart would give a massive boost to the region.
He said: “We would certainly offer help with the filming of this important new movie and we will be contacting the production company to invite them to visit Linlithgow.”
David praises Scarlett’s ‘mystical’ singing
Washington (ANI): Rocker David Bowie has showered actress Scarlett Johansson with praise prior to the release of her debut album, insisting that her performance is “mystical.” The rock legend added backing vocals to two tracks on Anywhere I Lay My Head Falling Down and Fannin Street.
Writing on his official website, Bowie has dismissed media criticism of the Lost in Translation starlet’s attempts to re-record songs by an artist as respected as Waits.
“The songs are great, really good Tom Waits stuff, and Scarlett’s performances are mystical and twice cool,” Contactmusic quoted Bowie, as saying. “She creates a mood that could have been summoned by someone like Margery Latimer or Jeanette Winterson,” he added.
Bowie, who sings on Falling Down and Fannin’ Street, played down his contributions to the album, saying that his involvement was fairly minimal. “I’ve seen the press on this and I suppose the record company wanted to spin my involvement a little more than it actually warrants. All I contribute are these oo’s and ah’s on a couple of tracks,” he said.
Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman Admit To Booty-Dancing In Costume On ‘Other Boleyn Girl’ Set
The Other Boleyn Girl” features many delights for an audience member. It’s a juicy period tale inspired by true events and adapted from a best-selling novel of the same name. It features fabulous costumes; provocative plot twists (adultery, betrayal of every stripe and, yes, even incest); and a moody turn by Eric Bana as King Henry VIII himself.
But forget all that: This one stars Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. Maybe it’s not on the level of De Niro and Pacino teaming up for “Heat,” but to see two big female talents side by side (and as sisters, no less) in a film like this is quite a rarity today.
MTV News chatted with the two stars about their divergent characters (here’s a switch: Natalie’s the bad girl), Scarlett’s upcoming album covering Tom Waits tunes, and why all these two really want to do is dance.
Scarlett Johansson compares herself to a modern-day Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood beauty Scarlett Johansson compared herself to a modern-day Marilyn Monroe - but “hopefully without the tragedy”.The Lost in Translation star spoke about her image on a TV chat show where she appeared with super blonde hair and bright red lipstick. “I think you are the equivalent of a retro modern day pin up girl - it’s almost like Marilyn Monroe,” interviewer Kelly Ripa said.
After accepting the compliment, Scarlett quipped: “Hopefully without the tragedy.”
She continued: “I like to play with my look. Of course I’ll never be that 6ft tall, 120 pounds … I’m a curvy girl, so I work with it.
“I try to embrace my femininity and encourage girls to put on a little red lipstick and all that stuff. So glamour is not lost!”
Scarlett has just come back from visiting troops in Kuwait, which she called a “life changing, amazing experience - one of the best things I’ve ever done”.
She said it was “nice to just brighten the day there” for troops she met.
Scarlett recently finished her third movie with Woody Allen, and joked that the legendary filmmaker only hires her through “pure convenience because I know what he likes to eat in the morning”.