We’ve reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit where it’s due. Scarlett Johansson is the latest champion in our Winner of the Week series.
Is it ScarJo 2.0? 3.0? 100.0? Scarlett Johansson has been through so many career transformations, from teen queen to indie darling to blockbuster powerhouse to sex symbol and everything in between, it’s hard to keep track of which version we’re on. Heck, I still remember picking up her Tom Waits cover album at a coffee shop.
But this week definitely marked a turning point for the actor, who has officially leveled up. She’s behind the camera and in control of the narrative, going from the Weekend Update desk to the Cannes red carpet in what felt like the blink of a smokey eye. Jurassic World: Rebirth may not come out until July, but her rebirth is happening right here, right now, which is why she’s our winner of the week.
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As of Saturday, Johansson has now hosted Saturday Night Live more times than any other female celebrity, a task no doubt made more convenient by the fact that she’s married to Weekend Update co-anchor and SNL head writer Colin Jost. Around Christmastime, Jost and his co-anchor Michael Che did their traditional joke swap, which naturally involved a rather graphic remark about Johansson’s vagina. Hosting the season 50 finale, Johansson got Che back, appearing at the Update desk to supervise him performing jokes about his own sexual perversions.
Then there was the Cannes of it all. In a recent Vanity Fair profile, Johansson revealed that she’s had directorial aspirations since she was twelve. Her directorial debut, Eleanor The Great, just premiered to a five-minute standing ovation, and is set to hit theaters in the fall.
And of course, she had a style moment on the red carpet, doing a modern take on the princess look in a gauzy periwinkle gown, red lips and sparkly earrings.
She’s actually got two flicks at the festival this year, with a small role in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.
It wasn’t long ago that Johansson was going the legal route to (rightfully) take back her power, suing Disney over how they released Black Widow and taking on OpenAI for (allegedly) using her voice without her consent. The fact that she’s now popping up on SNL and directing movies seems like a leap forward. No longer reactive, she’s creatively empowered and telling her own stories on her own terms.
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