Scarlett Johansson on her Broadway debut: “I’d spent four months bleeding all over the stage, completely exposed”

It seems scandal, even more than beauty, is truly in the eye of the beholder.  When Scarlett Johansson’s e-mail was hacked into, and nude photos were leaked onto the internet alongside those of multiple other stars, she reacted with her signature nonchalance.  “I know my best angles,” she recently told Vanity Fair, “They were sent to my husband.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  It’s not like I was shooting a porno.  Although,” she added, “There’s nothing wrong with that either.”

The invasion of privacy from the release of the pictures seems to pale in comparison to other ways Johansson has felt exposed in the past few years.  Her divorce from Ryan Reynolds (the recipient of the aforementioned photos) was public and painful.  Johansson says, “I really didn’t know what to do with myself.  It was such a strange time.  There was nothing that was interesting to me.  I had a very public separation.  It was difficult.  I felt very uncomfortable.”

Previous to the divorce, Johansson starred opposite Live Schreiber in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.  She dove into the role and experience and says that it “completely took me over in every way.  I’d spent four months bleeding all over the stage, completely exposed.”  Read more

New Spider-Man Andrew Garfield To Take “Death of a Salesman” Broadway Role

There are few plays in the history of American theater that carry the prestige of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.  An upcoming Broadway revival (the first since the acclaimed multi-Tony Award winning 1999 revival starring Brian Dennehy) has long been announced with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead role and directed by stage-and-screen director Mike Nichols, but the supporting cast is starting to take shape now. 

While Linda Emond will appear as Willy Loman’s wife while Andrew Garfield, star of the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man, will star as Willy’s son Biff, the one-time sports hero whose life has not amounted to much of anything since. 

It’s a difficult role to balance, especially for someone just about to turn twenty-eight, yet Garfield brings with him an English theatrical background (Death of a Salesman would be his first appearance on the Broadway stage).  It’s easy to write Biff off as a meathead jock who peaked too early, but anyone familiar with Miller’s plays knows that the character has far more dimensions than that. Read more

Katie Holmes debuts on Broadway

Katie Holmes received mixed reviews on Friday for her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.” It’s ok though, Xenu will teach those reviewers a lesson.