![]() ![]() ![]() rep told the Hollywood Reporter the studio plans to campaign for Johansson to receive a nomination. It hasn’t happened for any animated film ever, or for James Earl Jones as Darth Vader, Seth MacFarlane in “Ted’’ - or for the most famous computer voice of all time: Douglas Rain, as HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey.’’Ī Warner Bros. Johansson remains technically eligible for an Oscar nomination - but there’s absolutely no precedent there for honoring voice-only performances. that the voice performance was ineligible for the Golden Globes - just as the HFPA refused to consider Andy Serkis’ voice-and-motion capture work in “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’’ and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.’’ Venturelli/WireImageīut the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently notified Warner Bros. In “Her,” Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a computer operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. ![]() Johansson’s work so impressed the jury at the recent Rome Film Festival that they gave her their best actress award. It doesn’t hurt that Jonze has written Johansson a more complex character, with better lines, than those played by Amy Adams and Rooney Mara. Progressively flirtatious, sympathetic, neurotic, yearning and callous as the OS Samantha, it’s a vocal tour-de-force by an actress whose in-person performances have often seemed self-conscious on the big screen. But we never actually see her in the movie - the bodacious actress provides the voice of the title character, a computer operating system who seduces a writer (Joaquin Phoenix) going through a rough divorce. Scarlett Johansson gives what may well be the performance of her career in Spike Jonze’s “Her,’’ opening Friday. Scarlett Johansson is 'too fragile' for social media: 'I'm a delicate flower' Gwyneth Paltrow reveals feelings about doing another Marvel film Scarlett Johansson felt 'hopeless' after losing dream role in Oscar-nominated blockbuster "But what they didn't understand is that one sentence in Sofia's script can mean a five-minute sequence - she's a very visual director.Exposed bra trend gets boost from celebs: 'Intentional wardrobe malfunction' And people were asking how we were going to play a 75-minute movie in America," Katz says. "A lot of the people were kind of freaking out, because we had a 75-page script. "I have the worst singing voice," she says.)Īsking nicely will only get you so far, however, especially with investors, says producer Katz. Without raising her voice, for instance, she persuaded Bill Murray to strut his stuff in a karaoke rendition of Elvis Costello's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding." (Coppola herself sings karaoke, but only in Japan, and then only "Cherry Bomb," by the Runaways. and you can get people to do what you want by asking nicely, in my experience." "I don't feel the need to raise my voice. ![]() compared to that, I guess you could say I'm really quiet," she says. "I think people expect directors to be tyrants and yelling because that's the cliche. On her own behalf, Coppola says her directing style isn't a reaction against type, but a reflection of her personality. Such ponderous gloom might prompt the question, "Why is Sofia so sad?" The first year was really hard, so that was the mood I was in: How do people do this?" Coppola says.īut then again, this is the second of Coppola's two films to explore marital landmines, after the Lisbon family's suffocating portrayal in The Virgin Suicides. "I was writing it right after I got married. It's weird, kind of rude, I think."īut when asked about the inspiration behind her material, she concedes a bit of autobiography. "I like looking at all those trashy tabloids, but then I saw that they just make up. "It was just weird because they made up quotes," she says. Her second effort also deals with the isolation and subtle difficulties of marriage, enough so that the New York Post's Page Six snoops interpreted Coppola's cinematic themes as evidence of a marriage in turmoil with Jonze. Like that film, a candy-colored melancholy permeates Translation, as lost souls Bob and Charlotte wander around sprawling Tokyo. Lost in Translation marks Coppola's first original script after her adaptation of the well-received The Virgin Suicides. I just wonder when that's ever going to go away," Coppola says. ![]()
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