Scarlett Johansson revealed to Variety last month that she auditioned for the lead role in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2013 3D space epic “Gravity,” which became a box office blockbuster with over $720 million worldwide and earned 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture.
Cuarón won the best director prize, while Sandra Bullock was nominated for best actress.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Johansson cited “Gravity” as one of her weirder Hollywood audition stories.“I did a screen test for the movie ‘Gravity,’ that Sandra Bullock is fantastic in, but I had to be in like the full, whole space suit thing, and sort of pretend I was kind of like floating in space,” Johansson recalled.
“Even though I was just sitting in a chair with a helmet on.”In her Variety interview, Johansson cited losing out on “Gravity” and “Iron Man 2” as the moment she went into crisis mode as an actor.
Marvel originally…
Read full article