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Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, & Mindy Kaling Are Three of Elle's Women in Hollywood Honorees!

Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, & Mindy Kaling Are Three of Elle's Women in Hollywood Honorees!

Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Mindy Kaling are three of Elle‘s Women in Hollywood honorees on three separate covers for the mag!

Here’s what they had to share with the mag…

Scarlett on feeling a connection to her Marriage Story character Nicole, who is going through a divorce: “It was the first piece Noah gave me, and it felt familiar somehow, but not because of what I’d been experiencing then. But maybe because of how I grew up, and the dynamic between my parents—or maybe because I’ve known women who’ve dedicated themselves to their partner’s vision and then come out of this decade-long relationship feeling almost like a ghost.”

Natalie, on how her involvement with Time’s Up has spawned a powerful network for trading experiences: “If we don’t talk to each other, we can’t share, we can’t get information, we can’t get angry and organize together. It’s actually really important to tall. Something we’ve been talking about is sharing salary details with each other, because right now it’s such a taboo. It’s actually a real way that we can help each other, to be like, ‘Hey, this is what I get paid. This is how I negotiated this.’ ”

Mindy, on facing sexism early on in her tenure at The Office: Mindy recalled, “The show was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Shortly after, the Television Academy, which puts on the awards show, told Kaling that because there were too many producers on The Office, they were going to cut her from the list. She, the only woman of color on the team, wouldn’t be eligible for an Emmy like the rest of the staff. In order to receive her rightful recognition, she recalls, “they made me, not any of the other producers, fill out a whole form and write an essay about all my contributions as a writer and a producer. I had to get letters from all the other male, white producers saying that I had contributed, when my actual record stood for itself.”

For more from the stars, visit Elle.com. Look out for the magazine, on newsstands October 22.

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