Scarlett Johansson 'Under The Skin': Director Says Movie will 'De-Eroticize' Sexy Actress? [VIDEO, PHOTOS]
In Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson plays an alien nurse who picks up men, seduces them, sleeps with them and then kills them, but according to the film's director, that's not what the audiences should focus on in the new movie.
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Under the Skin, coming to select theaters on April 4, shows a very different side of the blonde, volumptous Johansson. Though her character feeds off of sex in the movie, the director Jonathan Glazer said that the film and her performance make a statement on much more than human desire and it even attempts to de-sexualize her pin-up persona.
"She's objectified, often, for her sexuality [and] the way she looks," Glazer told i09. "We put that to a better use - she put that to a better use, I think - by reclaiming that in this film. And I think she actually de-eroticizes her image in this film, and reclaims it by doing so."
The dark, but seemingly beautiful film, is also different because there are scenes that were filmed with "regular" people. As previously reported, Johansson picked up non-actors on the street for a few of the seductress scenes. Most did not recognize her and the director was able to capture their mixed feelings in the new film.
He described, "Scarlett Johansson pulls up, [and] in you get... some were suspicious. Some were wary. Some were frightened. You see a whole range of complexity of how men do respond to that scenario."
The new films seems to be a very different lane for the newly pregnant actress, but audiences will certainly be intrigued by the premise alone, which the director described as "...full of love and tragedy and nobility and courage and selflessness. It's unfathombable."
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