She grew up in a housing development program in New York City. Today, she's one of the biggest stars in the world.
Scarlett Johansson stars in a new Wes Anderson film, "Asteroid City" presented at the Festival de Cannes. This is her story.
Scarlett Johansson stars in a new Wes Anderson film, "Asteroid City" presented at the Festival de Cannes. This is her story.
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00:00I grew up in New York City, I grew up with four siblings, my father barely made enough to get by.
00:12We moved every year and we finally settled in a housing development for lower middle income families.
00:19We went to public schools and depended on programs for school transport and lunches as did most of my friends.
00:31My dad was an architect and he always, you know, would teach us to kind of look up at buildings
00:40and he was just really passionate about design and we would go with him to different design museums and all that stuff
00:48and I have really fond memories.
01:01When I was a kid, my mom would always, you know, various times when maybe I'd been rejected from something
01:07or it was a particularly hard moment, my mom would always ask me, she was like,
01:10are you sure you want to do this, you know, is it still fun?
01:14When it stops being fun, you know, then it's time to try something else.
01:18It's not always going to be fun, but I think if you have a passion for something and it stays with you
01:25and it burns bright, then you know that it's the right thing for you to pursue.
01:45I don't really think about the idea of celebrity, it just seems very new and can be quite strange sometimes.
01:54You think, you know, you want to be, you don't want, it's very new to me so I haven't, I'm not jaded to that yet.
02:02But I think, you know, there are the positive parts and all mostly positive and then some of the negative sides of it.
02:14My character is brave, she's vulnerable and she's a woman.
02:32I'm very proud to be able to be a working mom and, you know, I think it's really important for kids to see their parents satisfied by their job.
03:03March now! March now! March now! March now! March now! March now! March now! March now!
03:12I feel that in the face of this current political climate, it is vital that we all make it our mission to get really, really personal.
03:23So yes, at 15, I had been to a gynecologist. I was living in New York City and had visited a Planned Parenthood there.
03:34No judgment, no questions asked, Planned Parenthood provided a safe place where I could be treated with gentle guidance.
03:52I want to move forward and for me, moving forward means my daughter growing up in a world where she doesn't have to be a victim of what has cruelly become the social norm.
04:05That she doesn't have to fit into the bindings of the female condition.
04:10Time's up on the female condition!
04:22When non-transgender actors play transgender parts, it continues to kind of spread this idea that transgender people don't exist or that we're not real or that our identities are just a costume that somebody can put on and take off at will.
04:35It's really interesting because when we were looking for a director, you start to see some of the systemic problems and go, wow, it's really...
04:54Even looking for a female director who's had the opportunity to have the experience to sit at the helm of something huge like this, choices are limited because of that and it sucks.
05:24Transcribed by ESO. Translated by —