Scarlett Johansson Gossip

A couple weeks ago Lainey wrote about Scarlett Johansson’s legendarily awful response to criticism after she was cast as transman Dante “Tex” Gill in the biopic Rub & Tug. Please revisit Full Story

Earlier this year we learned Marvel (finally) greenlit a Black Widow movie, and now that movie has a director: Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland. Scarlett Johansson apparently backed Shortland because she liked Shortland’s 2012 movie, Lore. Full Story

Deadline reported yesterday that Scarlett Johansson and Rupert Sanders are working together again on a film called Rub & Tug, based on the real life story of Dante “Tex” Gill. As The Verge pointed out Full Story

We need some backstory before we can get into this. In 2012, after Katie Holmes left Tom Cruise, Vanity Fair published a story, by Maureen Orth, about Tom’s “secret wife auditioning process” before he and Katie started dating. Full Story

Look, she was already going to be my worst dressed. She was already on the “f-ck you” list for showing up to THE COSTUME INSTITUTE in something that looks like it was an also-ran for one of her We Got A Zoo premieres in Europe. Full Story

The first draft of this post was about Scarlett Johansson’s ever-growing back tattoo, and my defense, as someone who has tattoos, of what looks like a theme piece growing on her back. BUT THEN SHE PULLED OUT THE JOST. And the tattoos went in the electrical garbage can. Yes, that’s right, at the Infinity War premiere, ScarJo bonafided Colin Jost on the carpet. Full Story

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver were photographed in New York on Friday working on Noah Baumbach’s new film. A Noah Baumbach film is a good reset for Scarlett. I’d like to see her in a smaller, quieter film. But my first thought when I saw these pictures was that if I were Scarlett Johansson, who’s been josting Full Story

Marvel was always going to make a Black Widow movie, eventually, because at a certain point it just becomes money left on the table. Following Wonder Woman’s success in 2017, now is apparently when the money is on the table, and Marvel wants their cut. (They’ve talked enough about a Black Widow movie over the years to be like, Oh no, we were always working on this, but the timing is pretty clearly due to the Wonder Woman halo effect. Full Story

Scarlett Johansson showed up on the final 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live this weekend to play Ivanka Trump in the cold open. Afterward she joined cast members and host Kevin Hart on the Rockefeller Centre ice rink, standing beside her boyfriend Colin Jost. Full Story

Scarlett Johansson was at the 2017 Museum Gala in New York last night. She walked the carpet on her own but inside the event, she agreed to pose with Colin Jost Full Story