I still can’t with Scarlett Johansson’s Elsa Pataky styling. Why did you do this to your hair, ScarJo?! Oh well… it will grow out. As you can imagine, the press tour for The Avengers: Age of Ultron has begun in earnest. For the next month, it’s going to be endless premieres, press events, interviews and photo-ops with all involved. It was also just announced that Scarlett will be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 2 (Ultron comes out the previous day). It will be ScarJo’s fourth time hosting the show – she keeps getting asked back because (to her credit) she’s really good on SNL. She’s funny and she’s good at impressions and accents.
Meanwhile, there are a bunch of new interviews with ScarJo, so here are some assorted quotes that I found interesting:
Her stunt work while pregnant: “I don’t think you’re allowed to ride a motorcycle when you’re so pregnant, but I did. I did all of the motorcycle riding. I embarrassingly rode some sort of mechanical-bull type of motorcycle, which goes nowhere and doesn’t look cool, at all. But, I had some very professional and amazing motor-cross morphing done that makes Black Widow look like a total badass.”
The experience of motherhood: ” I’m such a newbie at this. I always really hate it when actors or people in the spotlight make giant grandiose statements about parenthood because it’s so, so personal. And I don’t profess to know anything more about parenting than anybody else.”
How baby Rose has changed her life: “I have a greater responsibility now so that will definitely affect my schedule. Before (Rose), I just made the choices that were affecting me but now I’m responsible for somebody else. Eventually I will have to work less and it might even make me more discerning. We’ll see, but I think having any kind of huge life-changing event happen to you, such as having children, and it’s such a different life now in the best possible way, is very, very inspiring. I think it will hopefully enrich my work as well as my understanding of myself. That’s the hope anyway, you never know.”
[From Daily Telegraph & People Magazine]
I like ScarJo more for saying that she wouldn’t be making any “grandiose statements” about motherhood. Because that’s what so many celebrity moms do, especially the judgy-mother-mafia of LA. Scarlett loves her baby and enjoys motherhood. Beyond that, do we really need to hear about Rose’s magical bowel movements or how motherhood aligns the cosmos? No, we do not.
As for Scarlett riding a motorcycle – I was confused on that point? Is she saying that she rode a motorcyle for-real in some scenes and in other scenes, she just rode the fake-cycle?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN.
Not crazy for her generally speaking, but I did like what she said about motherhood too! Other celeb new moms should take note.
I like that too. I also like her rather dry sense of humor, but I can see how it comes across badly in print sometimes. I bet some people will read the bit about the motorcycle as being arrogant, but she was being sarcastic; of course she didn’t do the stunts.
I like it too. She realizes she does not know any more than any other new mom and she is not going to be judgy. 🙂
+ 1
She looks beautiful. And I like her strange pink pantsuit.
Yes, she looks beautiful!
I also love her strange, pink pantsuit. And her hair looks good.
I thought she looked great too… I even like her short hair. Her face is so unusual and exotic.
Her outfit might have been something stylish 40 years ago. Looks like something from the 70s
On Kimmel last night, she said she wasn’t riding an actual motorcycle.
I like her more with this hairstyle. I used to find her boring with the longer hair.
I don’t have kids but I think no one wants advice from celebrities on parenthood. They are wealthy, they have full time nannies and different schedules.. They have nothing in common with ordinary people. Its nice that she is not judgy though.
I don’t like Scarlett.
She’s a humourless, Woody Allen supporting, pseudo intellectual (a la Kristen Stewart IMO) but I have to agree with her on this.
Because I think these celebs are onto a hiding.
They engage because the question has been put to them in the first place.
A throaway remark like Eva Mendes’ saying ‘sweatpants can cause divorce’ caused so much derision she had to backtrack. And that was just one line from a 30 minute interview!
Like the feminist question I would rather they just stop being asked about it. Period
I wonder if she asks Woody Allen to babysit? Can’t stand her.
I’m sure she happily will once Allen gets her that Oscar winning ‘Sunset Boulevard’ role, she always claims he promised her!!
“I think having any kind of huge life-changing event happen to you, such as having children, and it’s such a different life now in the best possible way, is very, very inspiring. I think it will hopefully enrich my work as well as my understanding of myself.”
One could easily describe this as a “grandiose statement about parenthood”.
Just sayin’…
That’s what I was thinking. But she kinda saved it it at the end by saying ‘hopefully’ and ‘myself.’
Eh. She gets a pass for me. I neither love or hate her.
Can’t stick SacrJo either. Friend met her at P Cafe in New York and she was utterly up herself
I happen to like her hair. Maybe its the new coloring
I don’t mind her hair either, it’s kinda edgy and cool looking. Although it looks oddly matronly from some angles with that pantsuit. I blame the pantsuit though.
I also don’t mind what she said about motherhood. As someone said above, this is the way for celeb new moms to handle the media.
Good for her not spewing mommy mafia garbage. I love my son more than anything, but I will never forget the guilt I felt when he was born and I felt the need to confess in whispered tones, “dude, I know I’m supposed to feel totally transformed at hear angels singing or whatever when I see him, but, honestly, it’s just a baby. A nice one, I like him, but he’s not magic or anything.” I knew from celebrities and pretty much everything else is heard that obviously I was a broken sociopath for not immediately worshipping his tiny poops.
IKR? All the women at my work seem to subscribe to the whole sanitised, magical form of motherhood too… it’s a quick ticket to post-natal depression or just plain old depression in my opinion. Real life doesn’t measure up to the advertised mummy-blog version of motherhood that ‘everyone else’ seems to be having. And now my kids are a little bit older – their faces if I mention my seven-year-old being a little asshole and how mad I am at him… you’d think I killed a kitten or something. Sheesh. I don’t worship my kids, I’m raising them.
And I really like Scarlett’s hair like this.
I think she’s talking about a fake motorcycle.
Right on, Scarlett. Hear that Olivia Wilde? In the words of the great Rand Paul, “Shhhh!”
That’s probably the most I’ve ever liked Scarlett. She usually sounds pretentious as hell.
Cutting your hair after your first baby is pretty common, I think. I did it, too. For me, I just did NOT want to have to mess with the long hair. It was much easier and faster to chop it. No muss, no fuss, and nothing for the baby to yank while breastfeeding.
Thank You Scarlet. Peace.
I loved her honesty here. She sounds very intelligent and wise (I’m still looking forward to like her acting, but I just can’t!)
” it’s such a different life now in the best possible way, is very, very inspiring. I think it will hopefully enrich my work as well as my understanding of myself.”
So that’s not supposed to be a grandiose statement about motherhood? Feels more inspired, will make me a better person and a better actress? OKAAAAY
Right. I won’t make a grandiose statement. Goes on to make a grandiose statement. Idiot.
Lol @GNAT
LOL exactly. I would have been happy with NO statement from the Brainless Wonder.
I know, I thought the same thing but then I thought she kinda tempered it with the “you never know” remark.
Dammnit! I posted the same above before I saw your comment.
But yeah EXACTLY! I laughed my ass off when I read that.
I am generally indifferent to her… But I think what she meant to say here, and I completely agree with, is how celebrities tend to make grandiose statements about motherhood that impact not just them, but everyone under the sun, whether that have had children or not, and how anyone not feeling or reacting that way (Looking at you Goop) is in the wrong.
As a mom, I absolutely agree that having had a child completely changed my life and priorities. I also happen to have strong opinions about how kids should be raised (looking at you Will and Jada) but I find it so very obnoxious when any other mom gets on a soapbox and starts telling me how I need to align my chakras, milk my own cow and knit unicorn hairs into one of a kind bracelets so that my child can have the bestest, one of a kind magical childhood ever. And if I don’t, I will burn in mommy hell, where there are no vagina steamers, no birthday parties for one year olds (who will NOT remember any of it) with themed cupcakes and hand made loot bags etc etc.
So yeah… For this once I agree with her. Still think she can’t act and she is a protégée of that horrible Woody Allen, but I won’t shade her on this comment.
I see what you’re saying but I still think you’re being incredibly generous.
While I’m sure that it’s true for her, it was still a slightly pompous, self-important (or grandiose) statement. Worse than that, it was annoyingly cliché.
Yes, motherhood changes a person forever. Yes suddenly one has to think of someone outside of herself, yes having children inspires and enriches one’s life.
Sorry but she still gets a huge BARF from my child-free ass.
Meh, I guess it’s not her fault because she was asked about it but I kind of wish celebs would refrain from acting like they’re the first person to discover the joys of parenthood.
When I first saw these photos of her, they reminded me of Halle Berry when she had her hair swept to one side. Also, the superhero connection… I think Scarlett has more of the Halle vibe going than Elsa.
I don’t mind her hair. And I really like what she says about motherhood.
The only time I care for her acting is in these films because it suits the character. Other than that, she is too wooden for me.
Something nice: I do like her hair.
I used to think she was pretty when she had red hair and was heavier. she had bigger boobs, too, were they implants she took out? hubby thinks she’s gorgeous but I think her face looks kinda basic and she has the same short blond cut as so many people. I don’t like it at all.
She’s had a huge rack practically since puberty, you can see it in Ghost World, Eight Legged Freaks and even in Lost in Translation (where she was still too young at the time of filming to legally have a boob job).
The reason why her chest looks smaller now is that she has lost a LOT of post-pregnancy weight, she’s smaller than she was before and the weight loss is all over, you can see it in her face.
I’ve always liked Scarlett. I loved her in The Nanny Diaries.
I saw that interview where she talked about the motorcycle and she was clearly joking. Her tone was sarcastic and she was rolling her eyes, and the for some reason the transcript seems to have cut out that her follow up statement was about the stunt woman who did all the actual motorcycle stunts and how good she was. She actually spent like half that interview talking about her stunt team, which I thought was cool, but none of those quotes have made it into print it seems.
” I still can’t with Scarlett Johansson’s Elsa Pataky styling. ”
Ha! That’s the first thing I thought of as well! For a second, that’s who I thought it was! And I don’t like the cut on either of them.
I’m so glad she said this! I love her again because of it. She bugs me bc she married a complete douchey geek but she is drop dead gorgeous!
I think she looks kind of like Kate Gosselin here.
Exactly! Are we all supposed to pretend like this hairstyle is cute? And that it’s different from kate gosselins? Because I think it’s way fug, on Elsa, Scarjo, Jennifer Lawrence, no can make that hair look good.
I’ve never heard any bad gossip about Scarlett (?). She’s always seemed talented, intelligent and beautiful to me. I completely agree with her statements. Celebrities have no place making grandiose statements about motherhood because their experiences of motherhood are so far removed from what the average woman experiences.
Celebrities have access to far more money, larger homes, nannies and often the luxury of being able to be with their children more without making financial sacrifices. Although not all of them exploit these services, they can if they wish.
Although I don’t discredit that celebrities also have their OWN unique set of struggles to contend with; career V family, paparazzi shots of the child, the child being ‘contaminated’ or negatively influenced by fame. Being a famous mother isn’t a cake walk just because you have money; motherhood is still hard. Nonetheless Scarlett made a good move here.
Also, her baby girl is absolutely beautiful. What a lovely little family she has.
PS re the hair cut, it’s possible she cut it so that it’s easier to manage whilst she cares for baby; it’s more low maintenance.
Some bad gossip:
-Scarlett has worked with and supports woody Allen
-there was that whole soda water company debacle in which she quit being an ambassador for UNICEF (?) to keep her endorsement deal with a company that has factories that are condemned by the UN and most foreign governments. I don’t think she handled that situation very well. That kind of turned me off on her.
-she’s rumored to be not-so-nice, but whatever, many female actresses are accused of that. more tellingly though, there have been stories about how she’s way up her own butt and how she’s not a girls girl and likes being the center of male attention and doesn’t give other women the time of day. Again that’s just rumors, but enough that I kind of believe them.
-dated Sean Penn, publicly, not a good look as far as I’m concerned, but she was smart enough to move on.
I’m sure there’s more, but I just don’t think she’s that interesting to tabloids, And I don’t think she does stuff for publicity unless she absolutely has to. Just living her (really charmed) life.
I can see why people have mixed opinions on Woody. He wasn’t charged with or convicted of anything AFAIK, unlike Roman Polanski. So for me, I’m not put off by people who work with woody than I am by people who work with Roman.
Just my opinion though – obviously if other people want to avoid Woody, that’s their choice. Maybe I’m just being more forgiving because i like Scarlett. The soda water thing was awkward, though. And Sean Penn was a terrible life choice! I ignore the rumours of her not being nice, those circulate around every actress.
Just realised my comment sounds like I’m discarding what Woody allegedly did. Definitely not doing that, I don’t like him at all! I’m just saying that he wasn’t charged.
I think she’s pretty, but I really don’t get why men the world over think she’s the hottest thing to walk the earth.
I like her, she seems to be herself, even if she puts her foot in her mouth some times. And I like her sense of humour, but I realize that it can come across wrong, especially in print.
I don’t like her hair at all, the jumpsuit looks fun though.
Re the Woody thing: I could imagine that if you know someone for a while and are somewhat friends with them, that it could be hard to believe something like that about them. Especially when they remain allegations that have not been proven (which is not to say they are not true), but I can understand that you would stand by your friend, when they are accused of something you cannot imagine them doing. I think it is easier to judge when you do not know someone, and while in theory I am always for believing the victim, if it was said about a male friend of mine that I trust and believe to be a good person, it would be difficult.
That said, since the allegations, Woody Allen films have lost their appeal to me.