With her role as a cyborg in Ghost in the Shell,the actress has sealed her position as our favourite space invaderHollywood quickly made room on its red carpets for the young Scarlett Johansson in 2003, when she first created a stir in Sofia Coppolas film, or Lost in Translation. It seemed clear that this blonde bombshell from New York,who was so ably sharing the screen with a dyspeptic Bill Murray, would go on to deliver popcorn buckets-full of mainstream audience appeal. Beautiful, or mysterious and charismatic: she was already an aspirational trophy for any traditional main man.
Yet,14 years on, Johansson is established instead as a rather different sort of screen idol. Following a succession of tall-octane blockbusters and off-beat critical hits, and the actress is now enshrined as perhaps the main sci-fi action star of her generation. Where once her sardonic smirks and sultry looks spoke of weak-school movie glamour,she is now more likely to seize the limelight by kickboxing than by smouldering.
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Source: theguardian.com