I can’t believe Scarlett Johansson gave some many juicy quotes to Cosmopolitan. I mean, if this was Vogue, Elle or Marie Claire, it might make a bit more sense. But ScarJo got sort of gossipy in Cosmo. In the first excerpts from her cover story, she dropped an interesting blind item about a “forever unavailable” emotional vampire. I thought it was Sean Penn, but most of you thought it was Jared Leto, and you guys are probably right (I’m terrible at blind items). As it turns out, ScarJo also dropped some interesting quotes, possibly about Ryan Reynolds. Oh, and Scarlett’s husband is obsessed with that show Shark Tank. Some new excerpts:
Is this about Ryan Reynolds? “The logistics of being with another actor are challenging. There has to be a real understanding of how you share your time, especially when two people’s careers are going at the same rate. Or even if one person is more successful than the other, that also proves challenging. There may be a competitive thing.”
Scarlett & Romain Dauriac love ABC’s Shark Tank: “My husband had this idea for an app and was like, ‘We should pitch this to Shark Tank!” After Scarlett tried to talk him out of it, “He was like, what? You mean it wouldn’t pass the Sharks?’ I was like, ‘Were not gonna get into a fight over this!'”
Her best decision was “moving to Paris”: “We’re both street rats. Being a New Yorker is a part of your personality, and he grew up in the heart of Paris. Just surviving the urban jungle is character building. It stays with you forever.”
She doesn’t want to live in the suburbs: “It seems wonderful to be raised in a natural setting, but I wouldn’t know how to do it. A big city would always draw me back.”
[From Cosmo via E! News]
E! suggested that the “competitive” quote was possibly about Ryan, but when you think about it, she could have been talking about any and all of her actor exes. She could have been talking about Ryan or Sean Penn… or Jared Leto… or Josh Hartnett. Hell, she could have even been talking about Justin Timberlake (HA!). As for the fact that Scarlett and Romain sit around watching Shark Tank… that surprises me. A lot. Shark Tank, if you don’t know, is a show that consists of would-be entrepreneurs “pitching” their ideas in front of a group of investors and the investors sometimes give advice and sometimes actually invest in the idea. Many actors will admit to off-brand TV habits, like some people are obsessed with The Bachelor or home improvement shows or something. I think Scarlett’s interest in Shark Tank may be a new trend for actors.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Cosmopolitan.
It’s about Ryan because this isn’t the first time she’s mentioned this and in the past when she has mentioned this she alluded to Ryan. But I love how everyone assumes that it was Ryan who was jealous of Scarlett when at the time Ryan had just finished the proposal, was going to be the Green Lantern and was going to be in Safe House with Denzel Washington…and was named sexiest man alive. And on top of that Ryan didn’t go on and marry a nobody. He married Blake Lively, who isn’t exactly chopped liver. She’s famous and popular in her own right and he’s making it work with her and in fact when they’re together on the red carpet he gives her the time to shine. Meanwhile Scarlett went on to marry some artist or something no one has heard of. It sounds more to me that she’s the one that doesn’t know how to handle someone being more popular than she is…hence marrying Romain. But anyways why does she keep on bringing this up? This is like the third or fourth time she’s mentioned this. He’s never mentioned her nor does he take subtle shots at her or any of his exes. And from what I remember she was the one who was treating him like crap so he divorced her and she ran into Sean Penn’s arms. This is a long response but I’m honestly just confused because when someone is happy, they don’t keep bringing up the past. And yet here is Scarjo once again mentioning how Ryan Reynolds just couldn’t handle her fame so he ran the other way. If I didn’t know any better the fact that she keeps bringing it up makes me believe she’s living with some regret…
RE: “bringing up the past” >>> Did she? Have you read the full interview (or Cosmo excerpts)? That’s not meant to be rude or sarcastic. I’m truly asking, because I haven’t read it. To me, this sounds like something she responded to; not a topic she brought up out of the nowhere.
My point is that she’s mentioned this numerous times before. Once in 2015 and another time in 2014. It’s a yearly thing for her I guess. And lets not sit here and act like celebs can’t choose which questions they want to answer or even which questions that they get asked. In a lot of ways the celeb controls the interview more than the interviewer them self.
Lol not that serious gurl:)))
“This is a long response but I’m honestly just confused because when someone is happy, they don’t keep bringing up the past”.
Agreed on that & I’ll be honest I don’t get that either.
She references her 1st marriage in ALL her interviews now
(as linked here on Celebitchy for years back)
Directly or passive aggressively.
She’s A List enough to bar her private life being a point of conversation in interviews (esp with Cosmo of all mags!!), so its kinda odd. Ah well….
Married a nobody? Maybe she married who she fell in love with. Just because someone is in the entertainment business doesn’t mean they should partner with someone in the entertainment business. If that’s the case Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Jackman, Matt Damon, Cuba Gooding Jr. Denzel Washington, Robert DeNiro and quite a few others married a nobody. Celebs doesn’t have to have an equally successful partner.
@V4REAL I never said anything about how marrying a nobody isn’t a good thing. All I said that was people always assume it was Ryan who couldn’t handle her fame and her popularity when all signs point otherwise. So thank you for further proving my point.
just for the record: Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Jackman’s wives were both struggling actresses when they met. They went on quitting their careers and becoming, what, wives and mothers? does that works as a career description? do they out that in a resume? I don’t know, but I’ve never heard an equal description for men: “he quit and became a husband and a father”…maybe Romain could fit here? Not shading just chitchatting
@key I know Mark and Hugh’s wives were actresses. That’s how Hugh met his wife. But once they got married she quit her acting career. The point I was making was just because their spouses are no longer in or have never been in the entertainment business does that mean they married a nobody. I’m not the one who called anyone a nobody, the OP did. I was just using these people as examples by asking the question will she consider them a nobody.
@Sam”And on top of that Ryan didn’t go on and marry a nobody.”
That reads to me as if you’re calling ScarJo’s husband a nobody. If you’re not then why phrase it that way?
@V4REAL You’re missing my point. What I’m saying is that Ryan Reynolds went on to marry another working Hollywood actress and Scarjo didn’t. In Hollywood he is a nobody and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a Hollywood actor/actress marrying someone who isn’t famous. The point im making is that Scarjo has stated this numerous times before and everyone assumes that Ryan was the one jealous of her which is why the marriage didn’t work. However her marrying someone who isn’t famous leads me to believe that she’s the one who couldn’t handle Ryan becoming more popular. That’s all I’m saying.
Didn’t they both end up with partners the 2nd time around who don’t seem to have the same travel/work demands?
I’m actually surprised how well Ryan and Blake are going. I mean who knows what happens exactly behind closed doors, but when it comes to success, Hollywood couples and civilians as well, of course, have a hard time dealing with one part of the couple’s success. Ego and competition hit harder to men, when she’s the more successful one, women are culturally, and sadly, more used to accept to be the lesser part and let the man shine. It strikes me how hard is to successful actresses in Hollywood to make it work with an equally successful actor: it’s rather impossible, I don’t think there are many examples. So there you have two options: become serial dater and be happy as long as it works or take the purse holder like most successful actresses have done and get bored, get a lover….
its certainly not easy being a succesful woman. as you say the guys who have no problem with it are boring and unmanly, thats why we see so many actresses cheat.
or marry a sexy and succesful guy and be his housewife. you dont have too many choices, i dont know any woman who wants to be with a purseholder who makes less than her. even the biggest feminists i know say that if you are a the breadwinner your partner will never be your hero.
Didn’t she admit she basically checked out of the marriage? She does bring him up a lot albeit in the form of a blind item sometimes. Sometimes explicit:
She said that in the summer of 2010 she took a road trip around Europe with Ryan, after he’d filmed Green Lantern, which started the downfall of their marriage.
Scarlett had just finished filming Iron man 2 alongside Robert Downey, Jr. and knew The Avengers was coming later, but she said she took a long time hunting for her next film.
‘It was nice, but at the same time, I was like “What am I going to do with myself?” I don’t know. I was waiting. [It was] a hard time . . . I was feeling very out of my own skin.
Her marriage started to crumble when she was temporarily not working and he had just finished Green Lantern. They had a roadtrip so spent a lot of time together (something that had not happened often) and it went downhill. So who is threatened by success then? Previously, only she was the big star and now he was going to be in his own franchise (or that was the expectation LOL).
She needs to let it go, it didn’t work out and by her own account, she has a big part to play in why that happened.
And yeah, it’s especially embarrassing when Reynolds doesn’t care about her but focuses on the now and what he loves which is his family and his career.
Also her buzzword concerning marriage and relationship talk seems to be SUCCESS: just like Reynolds she had a huge dip in popularity at one point. Being in a Marvel movie and changing it up with theatre ensured a longer career but she should not be bringing ‘success’ up in a world that is vapid as hell and where people make all sorts of questionable choices to get a job or maintain a career. Everybody defines success for themselves and she’s not above attaching herself to a blockbuster to maintain success.
Agreed 100%.
I remember when I first started posting here cause Scarlett gave an interesting interview to Elle magazine.
She was dating Romain at the time but was STILL being wistful about her 1st marriage and how romantic her wedding day was.
She’s given interview after interview to Vogue, GQ, since talking about missing her ‘buddy’ ‘pal’, about understanding what makes marriage work or then making digs at him.
They’ve been apart longer than they were ever together, she’s married now and it was hardly Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward thing in the first place. Ryan does not reference her but ScarJo still pressed in some way, and is dealing with it how she can.
And if she’s talking competitiveness in her usual passive aggressive shade – Would her career have recovered from its dip if Emily Blunt had not turned down Black Widow?
The crux of the issue seemed to be, How do you as a couple decide who gets to turn down jobs and who gets to work, if you make a priority to actually spend time together? Look at the most successful pairings of actors – they have agreed to take turns working, and have had to turn down jobs that would have liked to do. Take for example Jennifer Connoly and Paul Bettany: she’s mentioned that when The DaVinci Code came up, it was actually her turn to work but that she urged him to take the job because it was too good of an opportunity. If one of the couple is in a better career position, does the other person step back and let them work? Hollywood is a fickle place, and its a huge leap of faith to decline jobs and hope that something else comes along.
And is it a shock that Scarlett would see life in those terms? She was a child perfomer, and has had immense success from a very young age. That’s gotta screw up the lens through which you view the world.
@Amid but just to make a point about something that I see more and more in comments boards and people talking in general: how we, the audience, the public have became such critical and unforgiven about actors and their highs and lows. We known that showbiz is made of irregular path, success today, nothing tomorrow, and has little to do with talent, bad or good choices, PR, or anything: sometimes is just luck. It seems like we expect from every actor, whether we like them or not, to be at the top of their games all the time, like the 4 or 5 successful superstars known all around the world: not everybody wants or aims to become an Angelina or a Brad, hell, even them have their ups and downs. it’s just we are su bitchy and unforgiven of these people’s careers like they always should be aiming to superstardom. Some may not like that.
I completely agree with you. She seems bitter talking about it over and over again and hinting that her career was more successful.
….. except that by the time Ryan married Blake, it was pretty well understood her career was on a downswing and that since younger blood like Rooney Mara, JLaw and Emma Stone had basically rendered her niche (up-and-comer blonde with boobs who auditions for lots of prestige projects) irrelevant by then, marrying well and keeping Anna Wintour on side was the best she could do. Much less negotiating with the acting career there, no big-budget franchises or projects that could keep her away for months at a time.
And Scarlett herself wasn’t short of prestige projects during her first marriage years. She signed on to Iron Man 2, with the promise of a major multiple-film franchise to come (and since Iron Man had done amazingly well, everyone knew it was going to be huge, just not HOW huge) in 2009, smack in the middle of the marriage.
As for the ‘nobody’ marriage, maybe she discovered that’s what she’s into? She dated another non-showbiz guy, an advertisement exec or something, around the time of the first Avengers film. Maybe she’s just not into partners who work in the same field as her any more.
She’s dated enough that this could be a blanket statement. Although, I chuckled thinking of why Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are working so well. I mean, it’s not hard to decide which career takes priority. I just don’t think Blake’s career is (or will be) going anywhere.
What are you talking about? One could argue that before Deadpool, Blake Lively was the more popular one of the two. She took a break for like two years and then decided to pop right back out into our faces. I just find it funny how people think Blake Lively is like chopped liver and doesn’t have a “career.” Maybe she put her ego aside and decided that her family takes precedence over the fame. And in a lot of ways Ryan has done that too. They moved away from Hollywood and are raising their daughter out of the spot light. Ryan spent the better half of last year traveling with Blake so she can shoot her movies. Ryan is making it work with another Hollywoof actress…despite you not thinking her career is going anywhere. And then we have Scarjo…who apparently can’t be with another actor because of the “competition.”
This. I see Blake Lively as putting family first. I like how the Reynolds are balancing their careers. No shame at all for Blake. She could be doing more if she wanted to.
She’s not chopped liver but she was never more popular than Ryan. She hasn’t been in any big films. Before deadpool they were on the same level career wise.
“What are you talking about? One could argue that before Deadpool, Blake Lively was the more popular one of the two.”
Um, no, she wasn’t.
Blake is not a good actress, the only thing I’ve seen her in where she was good was”The Town.” I don’t see Blake as putting family first. I see her as putting Ryan first and I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. But let’s not pretend that Blake is this amazing actress and people are beating down her door to work with her.
Okay, even you have to admit that’s a stretch. Blake Lively was on a niche TV show for a handful of years, whereas Reynolds has been a legit movie star for a long time. Remember Cannes when the folks putting it on were surprised when Blake splashed out a big red carpet because they had no idea who she was?
@Bridget
I think dating then marrying Ryan made her more popular.
I agree with Bridget.
Blake was always high profile because of her looks and doing red carpets a lot because of those looks. She was on the cover of vogue every other month there for a while. But her celebrity was never really due to acting more, like gossip girl made her famous and her beauty was able to get her contracts with fashion brands and covers and stuff.
lol Blake was on a CW show and is best known for being one of Wintour’s questionably-talented covergirl pets a la Jessica Biel etc. And now for running a shoddy attempt at a lifestyle website with purple prose that was pretty much the laughingstock of all celeb lifestyle brands until she put it out of its misery last year.
For a while there (2010-11) she and her PR were fronting like she was the next big thing but when it became apparent it was all Emperor’s New Clothes and she wasn’t going to happen the way she wanted, she went back to the usual CW-starlet lane of getting papped and getting press for her outfits and relationship. In no world was she more popular or famous than Ryan, not even at her ‘peak’. I mean, he had way more success in actual movies than she ever did.
THIS.
ScarJo dropping blind items left & right, & I say keep them coming! The first one seems to be either about Josh Harnett (remember him?!) or Ryan Reynolds. Cosmo did get a good interview out of Scarlett, maybe she felt more comfortable with them than Vogue.
Here’s an idea: It’s about ALL of them, because it’s a pattern.
yep yep. lol All the guys she dated were class A douches in Hollywood. Jared Leto? Sean Penn? Yikes. And Ryan Reynolds seems very charming, but there’s accounts of him being a pain in the ass SO too though, and Blake seems more maleable than Scarlett.
I would agree that its probably about all of them.
I certainly think so. She’s dated enough actors that she can probably establish the pattern without it being specific to any one of them.
I thInk the other one was Jared but this one is a general statement.
She has an edgier look to her lately. She looks good.
I don’t know if she’s saying a guy was jealous of her success, but it two actors of different genders are in a coupling and they’re both fairly successful, I it baffling when the male might be jealous of the female since the men get the less stinky roles in Hollywood (although at this point it seems like they’re all playing superheroes, except for Leo DiCaprio).
I never understand how 2 actors (or musicians) get together and then are shocked that you can’t make a marriage work when you never see each other. And of course it happens a ton. Didn’t she and Ryan only see each other once every couple of weeks?
Yep
And ego also gets in the way. ScarJo’s interviews making shady digs at him, means its probably best they are far away from each other. Ryan’s moved on, Scarlett should have stuck with Sean Penn!
SJ made a scene at the Tony award, perhaps not on purpose, but definitely aimed at exposing RR somehow, and I must say that she looked awful after the divorce. I distinctly remember her reporting her grandmother’s comment along the lines that her husband was an egoist because he wanted a child and that she should instead concentrate on her career. However, I saw recent photos of SJ with her mother, and somehow the two women looked sad, as if her mother was consoling her about something. Mine could be wild speculations, I know, but she needs to have some fun. She always looks bored.
@Prince Valiant – ‘she looked awful after the divorce’….. where? All I find are pics of possibly her best hair look ever, the short bob.
Teacakes, For example at the Venue for International Press she attended with Sean Penn, when he loaned her his jacket.
I disagree. She was the one who wanted out and he at the time was a known huge a-hole. I don’t think when she talks it is always about him.
her guy looks like a henchman of a bond villain.
Like a younger & less attractive John Malkovich.
blake is that you?!
My thoughts exactly Lizzie…!
LOL……
Haha right.
She doesn’t live in Paris anymore since 2 years at least.
Seriously?
I feel her about the suburbs. My SO thinks it would be cool to live there and I just…………can’t.
Bless her heart, but the suburbs aren’t really a natural setting… just a bunch of strip malls with trees.
why are people assuming it’s ryan she talking about? she dated so many actors, some of them are notorious twats, like sean penn.
There have been a lot of tumors that Scarlett broke up with Ryan because her career was starting to take off and his was a series of mediocre successes and failures. They’re both scorpios so it makes sense that Ryan would get competitive
Except that it was Ryan’s career that was about to take off and the series of flops that you’re talking about didn’t happen until later on. They divorced at the end of the 2010. He had just finished starring in The Proposal, just finished filming The Green Lantern and was set to film Safe House. This narrative that Ryan couldn’t handle her success is funny to me because it doesn’t even fit the reality of the direction of their careers at the time.
ok, got it. you wrote this same thing about 100 times, maybe she isn’t even talking about ryan. chill.
Green Lantern was getting bad press from the get go as the superhero movies that will jump the shark for superhero movies. The proposal was a hit, but he’d had a lot of misses before that though. Scarlett’s career has always been pretty successful in a steady way where she got jobs in both commercial and critical darling films. She was always the bigger star of the two, no way around that. He was the pretty one. Now it’s turned around where he’s the bigger star of him and blake, and blake’s the pretty one now. And that may be the recipe for success for him.
Blake?
Ryan has had like three successful movies: Van Wilder which was supposed to make him a movie star but nobody cared, The Proposal which was supposed to make him a movie star but nobody cared, and Deadpool which is supposed to make him a movie star but…we’ll see. He and Blake Lively have movie star faces and bodies, but for whatever reason they just don’t click with audiences.
Harvey Weinstein couldn’t even make Blake Lively happen, FFS.
@ELL I’ve stated it the same amount of times that you’ve said she could be talking about anyone. If you don’t like it then don’t respond and keep scrolling down.
I really covet her lifestyle – living in Paris, married (or not) to a journalist, and wearing lots of great clothes (she has great style IMO). What a life!
I must say, it’s amusing to see the amount of projecting Scarjo brings out in some people. You know who they are 😉
LOL…
Maybe they’re just die hard Blake Lively fans. Because they adore Blake so much they must protect all things associated with Blake such as her husband.
@ V4Real-
I usually read you girl (especially with your spot-on comments in Dicaprio posts)
But you can spin the wheel, and say the same exact same thing about Blake’s – or anyone else’s – die hard haters.
I mean they even manage to reference Lively in posts when she’s not on topic!! That’s special.
At the end it’s all about whose a fave and whose not, which shapes the narrative.
Well, looking at Ryan’s second marriage it seems that he is more confident and happier in a relationship with someone who is not as ambicious in their professional life as he is. Blake is happy presenting her self as a house maker first and an actor second ( good for her) so my first thought was – deffinitely Ryan. But then maybe she is not referring to anyone in particular (it easily may also be Josh Hartnett) but maybe in a way to compare the life she has with someone who is not a celebrity to the life dating a fellow actor.
Scarlett is successful and a very independent woman with strong opinions. She was raised that way. It always stuns me that Scarlett was in her teens, 17, when she shot Lost in Translation and played someone who had just graduated from college and was a young wife. There has always been a maturity about her from the get-go.
I think dating or marrying another actor, both off on location, it just gets too hard. I think she was talking about her experiences in relationships with actors generally, but probably Ryan stands out the most because they were married and so were committed to trying to navigate being two busy actors and the ego involved with being in that profession and marriage and him wanting a child..
Anyone who says Scarlett career is less successful than Ryan is laughable. Ryan was clearly the insecure party. I think both of them are strong headed and you need someone who can take a backseat which their now spouses both do by choice.
I don’t see how it’s even a discussion. Scarlett has been a legit movie star for over a decade. Commercial and critical success. They’re in different leagues, always have been and always will be.
Maybe. But I do think she is the competitive one. It is RR’s moment now. Is it opportune to bring up again the issue of competitiveness now? Very, very untoward and ungenerous. Let go. Live and let live. It’s over.
Speaking of Blake, there are pics on line of her reshooting some scenes for her shark movie and she looks knocked up again.
In conclusion, one can’t deny that SJ has a fixation. She brought up the issue about competitiveness in a marriage as a reason for divorce umpteenth times. It makes you think. In my country we say that the “tongue keeps beating on the aching tooth”.
Is it me, or does that haircut make her look like Elsa “Thirsty” Pataky? Cannot unsee.
Thank you for pointing out the resemblance. I was scrolling down the comments waiting for someone to say that. You made my day.
i like blake…..and more importantly i really think Ryan found his soul mate…. not terribly deep, hot blonde type not bimbo tho but airy lol, and desperately wanting to be a wife, and adoring of him, June-cleaver wanna be cook type, and NOT a workaholic…..mostly polar opposites with Scarlett…
Side note can Scarlett PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE stop mentioning Ryan…. and the break down of everything…. just let it go… if I were her husband I would be am I rebound and are you not general happy you married me? because its been like 6 years and this seems to be a key core of your interviewing and discussion points lol