She may have the world at her feet now, but it was not always so for Scarlett Johansson.
The 28-year-old bombshell opened up to Interview magazine about how she was rejected as a child star, and explains her voice was old beyond it’s years.
The Don Jon star, who wears Dolce & Gabbana in the gorgeous spread, told the magazine: ‘I was always terrible at commercials because my voice was so deep. At the age of nine, I sounded like a whiskey-drinking, chain-smoking fool. Wasn’t going to sell Jell-O with that voice.’
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She added: ‘There was someone in my older brother’s class who was doing some commercials and theater, so my mom took me to that kids agent because I loved musicals.
‘They didn’t want me though. I was devastated. I thought it was the end of my career… and that’s when I realised that by crying I could get whatever I wanted.’
However, it didn’t help with her SAT scores, as she explained: ‘ I think the way it worked when I took them was that they were out of 1,600, so maybe you’d get a 1,240 if you were a smarty pants.
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‘I got a 1,080, which was pretty low. But that was probably because I didn’t answer half of the math questions.’
Happily, of course, Scarlett – who was born and raised in New York – found her niche in the performing arts.
She reminisced: ‘I was a big song-and-dance type of kid – you know, one of those kids with jazz hands. I liked to improvise and do weird vocal exercises. I was a major ham – if you can believe!’
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Scarlett, who is engaged to Romain Dauriac after dating from last November, also explained she needs to have plenty of leisure time.
‘Especially in theater, where you’re doing something like eight shows a week, giving three-hour performances each time, and the work is agonizing and there’s never a moment to rest.
‘I would just perish if I wasn’t able to meet my boyfriend for dinner afterward, or meet a couple of friends for drinks, or get up the next day and go to the gym, or see my dad, or just do those everyday things.’
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