Scarlett Johansson, 'I live cinema, reality and dream' - Lifestyle

In Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Scarlett Johannson plays a famous actress with short black hair as they wore in the 50s, who finds herself there in the desert to indulge her science-crazy teenage daughter and participant in the Stargazers gathering. The diva stumbles the neighbor, the vain war photographer (Jason Schwartzman).
On the red carpet in Cannes she conquered everyone with her smile, wrapped in a pink tube dress and her hair returned long platinum blonde. She is the star of the day in Cannes.
At the press conference (absent the other big star Tom Hanks) with the rest of the cast - Jason Schwartzman, Maya Hawke, Bryan Cranston, Stephen Park, Jeffrey Wright and Rupert Friend - he told the adventure of entering the world of Wes Anderson, a universe in its own right made of well-kept sets, surreal, funny, cold stories, a sort of animated paintings that you love or hate, Plastic comedies often dramaturgically still. "I have been working in cinema for many years, playing a character is a bit of an extension of myself, for a long time I have been thinking that for me cinema has become a complex mix between real life and dream, let's say that it is an extension of my subconscious and from my dreams I often draw inspiration and substance for the characters I play", Johansson said.
Anderson's film, "poetic meditation on the meaning of life", is a side effect of the pandemic as the protagonists find themselves stuck in the city where an ancient meteorite is studied and venerated for an alleged passage of alien presences and end up in quarantine. "During Covid we were writing the script, I don't think there would be a quarantine in the story if we weren't living it," he said.
In the film, in theaters with Universal from September 14, with a cast that also includes Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell and Jeff Goldblum, there is no hierarchical order on the set. "The lack of hierarchy, coupled with the level of storytelling, is what makes it unique," said Maya Hawke, while Anderson reiterated, "The importance of connecting all of us during filming is what makes the difference when shooting a movie." According to Scarlett Johannson, the experience on a set "is more like theater than film.
You're in it. The whole environment is created. It's a physical, tangible, usable space," he said.
After all, Anderson, as in his other films, from The Tenenbaums to Gran Budapest Hotel to The French Dispatch, here too has built everything first with an animated storyboard in motion, a sort of parallel film.
Inevitable question about aliens, does Wes Anderson believe it? "I've read Stephen Hawking insisting that it's numerically unlikely that there would be no extraterrestrial life, but I really don't know, no I would say I don't believe in alien invasion," the director joked.
The actress of the Avengers, of Black Widow (the one for which in full quarantine she challenged a Studio, a unique and pioneering case, filing a lawsuit against Disney for the release of the film directly on the platform without recognizing other compensation) but also of Storia di un matrimonio, Match Point, in Cannes with her third husband Colin Jost has become at 38 the Hollywood star who has grossed the most. She is alongside the struggle of the writers (including her husband) on strike and before flying to Cannes she went with Chris Evans to visit another of the Avengers, Jeremy Renner, who escaped death in a mountain accident and is on the mend. After Asteroid City, this Oscar-winning super actress will be in Kristin Scott Thomas' My Mother's Wedding, and in Project Artemis with Woody Harrelson. (ANSA).