Why Scarlett Johansson Says ‘Saturday Night Live’ Finale Was So “Special” for Her (Exclusive)
Scarlett Johansson’s star power has never been lost in translation.
So when it was time to cast a believable badass to outrun, out-swim and outsmart a coterie of eerily evolved dinosaurs in Jurassic World Rebirth, it had to be her.
Yet the actress—who’s proved over the course of her 30-year career that she can deftly handle any screen challenge, from superhero stunts to playing an A.I. operating system—insists she’s the lucky one.
“I’ve been trying to get into a Jurassic movie for, I don’t know, 15 years or something,” Johansson told The Hollywood Reporter in May during the Cannes Film Festival, where her feature directorial debut Eleanor the Great was screening. “I was so stoked that it all came together.”
Seemingly she could have had her pick of parts in the decade-old Jurassic World franchise, but being in demand does have its downside: There’s only so much time every year for a movie star mom of two—Johansson shares son Cosmo, 3, with husband Colin Jost and daughter Rose, 10, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac—to commit to a big-budget action movie.
But, happily, life finds a way.
