Will mom be happy her little girl is back where they shared memories? “I hope so. That's what we all hope, anyway. That mom will be happy,” says Johansson.
Though “A View From the Bridge” was her Broadway debut, she had one other stage credit—in an off-Broadway play in 1993 called “Sophistry” with Ethan Hawke where she had only one line. (She still remembers it—“Mom, something smells, something smells.”) Of her subsequent success, Johansson laughs: “Yeah, moving on up.”
After tackling Miller and Williams, is there any stage star she'd still love to portray? Of course: Johansson points to “Sunset Boulevard.” ‘'Someday I want to play Norma Desmond,” she says. “But everybody does.”
The actress, who is rebounding after divorce to actor Ryan Reynolds and the illegal leak of intimate naked photos, says she tries to live as normal a life as possible.
“It's hard to keep your private life private because people are very prying and they have ideas of your romantic life or the kind of crazy lifestyle you live or whatever,” she says. “I live a relatively low-key lifestyle.”
That means that Johansson can sometimes be found in Midtown doing something quite unglamorous. Like curbing her pets. “When you've got two dogs, you pick up their poo,” she says, laughing.
