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Scarlett Johansson Explains the Difference Between Acting & Being a Movie Star

Scarlett Johansson Explains the Difference Between Acting & Being a Movie Star

Scarlett Johansson looks stunning on the cover of W Magazine‘s Best Performances issue, on newsstands February 4th.

Here’s what the 35-year-old actress had to share with the mag:

On actors and films that inspired her as a young kid: “I wanted to be Judy Garland! I saw adult things at way too young an age. I watched Chinatown when I was 9. Patrick Swayze was my biggest crush. He still is. And David Bowie in Labyrinth. They opened my eyes to sexuality! Whoa! They both looked great in extremely tight pants.”

On the difference between a movie star and an actor: “When I was 9 years old, working on a film called Just Cause with Laurence Fishburne, we were traveling on a plane somewhere for the film, and he said to me, ‘Do you want to be an actor or do you want to be a movie star?’ I didn’t know what the difference was. I felt like, You can be both, right? And I realized then that you have to keep pushing further and further to stretch yourself to uncomfortable places. If your end goal is to be a movie star, well, that’s different than acting.”

For more from Scarlett Johansson, visit wmagazine.com.

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