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Film Edited by Virginia Gil timeout.com/miami/film @virginwrites futurist The


Scarlett Johansson plays another kick-ass warrior in Ghost in the Shell—so what has got her so scared? By Dave Calhoun


IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON’S new film, a remake of a 1990s Japanese manga movie, she plays the Major, a cyborg in a tech- driven vision of the near future. It’s not the 32-year-old actor’s first brush with action and effects-heavy blockbuster cinema: She’s been playing the Black Widow in the Avengers movies for almost a decade now. But Johansson is a diverse performer, equally known for her turns in left-field movies like Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. We met the actor soon after the presidential election—months before her infamous Women’s March speech—when she was thinking about the future in more ways than one.


Ghost in the Shell asks us to think about the future. That feels timely: Do you think politics has already put the future into sharp focus for many Americans? Yes, and we’ve been kind of complacent. In the United States we don’t have mandatory military service or a draft or anything like that, so people don’t necessarily think about voting, which in some other places is a life-or-death


Time Out Miami February 9–May 17, 2017


“Anonymity is such a precious thing. I can’t imagine why you’d want to give it up.”


has absolutely no political experience whatsoever—ever.


decision! Now it’s all catching up with us. It’s brought us to this new administration, which is scary.


What are you most worried about? I’m most concerned about the environmental ramifications because that’s a clock you can’t turn back. We’ve had other administrations that were backward, in that they were not progressive. But this presidency is unprecedented because we have someone in office who


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Where do you even begin when you’re playing a cyborg onscreen? With this character, there’s nothing extra to her. She’s efficient. There’s no fumbling for the right thing to say. She doesn’t nervously fidget. She’s not exactly mechanical, but she’s driven, and as an actor you rely on physical nuances, vocal nuances, things that connect with an audience. You don’t want to give a performance that’s monotonous. But it has to stay true to what her experience is. It was challenging.


You didn’t have much to play with? She doesn’t have a heart. She doesn’t have a stomach. These are things that tell us as animals how we’re feeling. Our gut instinct— she doesn’t have any of that. It was hard. It could be frustrating at times. Especially working opposite Juliette Binoche. I think she sensed my frustration. She said, “It’s hard to not be human!”


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