Scarlett Johansson covers the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, and I actually like these photos, surprisingly enough. I generally think Scarlett is overrated as an actress and a model, and I get so tired of her blonde-bombshell Marilyn Monroe styling (how many ad campaigns is she going to do as Marilyn?). But I like the darker hair in this editorial, and I like the photos a lot. Nice. In the magazine, ScarJo talks politics:
Scarlett Johansson is putting her stamp of approval on who she thinks would make the best next President of the United States. The actress, who graces the cover of the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar U.K., explained that Hillary Clinton was the ideal candidate.
“I think Hillary Clinton would make a wonderful president. I think we could only benefit from having someone in office who has been a mother; women have a different perspective and appreciation of humanity because of that maternal instinct.”
She added, “It can only be a step forward.”
The blond beauty also revealed the reasons behind being so active in Barack Obama’s reelection campaign saying, “It would be irresponsible not to. I come from a politically active family. To be an active member of the community, to be a responsible citizen and to engage politically have always been part of my awareness and part of my life. More than anything else, I believe that if everyone exercised the right to vote, the right choice would be made by the nation as a whole.”
And since she’s so well-read on the subject of politics, is there another career in the wings for the film star?
“That seems like a stretch,” she said. “But who knows? I don’t limit the possibilities. If I have more time, I may be able to lend a bigger voice to politics. I never close the door on those kinds of things.”
That doesn’t sound like an outright no to us! So when the 28-year-old isn’t busy being politically involved and making movies, she’s dreaming up what’s in store for her in the years to come.
“Eventually I want to have a family, and that would be my focus, but right now I’m having fun with it. There have been times in my career where I’ve struggled to find…I was stuck for a while,” she explained. “It was more difficult, maybe, to find the right thing to do. Now I’m enjoying a really productive, creative period.”
At this point, I sort of agree that Hillary Clinton would make a great president, although I’m still not sure Hillary is going to run in 2016. I also agree with Scarlett about voter participation – it kills me a little that there are still millions of Americans who don’t bother to vote at all. WTF? As for the other stuff, like Scarlett possibly running for office… crazier things have happened. If George Clooney can constantly field questions about his political objectives, why not Scarlett?
Also: Scarlett Johansson just arrived in Venice with her French boyfriend Romain Dauric. LOOK AT HIS JEANS. OMG.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Harper’s Bazaar UK.
Is she really only 28?
ETA I just checked and it’s true! Wow, I could have sworn she was older than me (30).
Wowza! All I see is teeth on that cover.
I LOVE the cover, finally allowing a woman to SMILE instead of that stupid mouth-haning-open-trying-to-look-ready-for-sex pose.
May take some getting used to, but I think she looks beautiful and full of personality!
That cover is hideous! She looks like a clown.
I also thought she was in her 30s. The pix are gorgeous, but as usual, the photoshopping is ridic. They even ‘shopped out her famous cheek mole.
I don’t love celebrities talking politics, although she does seem fairly well informed. I agree that Hillary would make a good president, but I don’t know if I buy a causal link between that and being a mother (hello, Sarah Palin).
And yes, it is a damn shame that after all our forbears suffered to ensure that all American citizens have the right to vote, so few bother. New voter ID laws, etc. are not helping 🙁
Any thoughts on the push to re-enfranchise certain ex-convicts once their sentences are served?
I like Scarlett. Always have.
But I hate it when people throw in parenthood as a qualification for a job. I followed Julia Gillards (ex Australian PM) ousting and half the time wanted to smash my computer. She never had kids and for some reason her opponents were able to depict her as cold and selfish just based on that. Shes not alone either. In Liberia, the female president is derided for divorcing her dick husband when the kids were young. Who cares?!
Our former prime minister was a divorced single mother and head of the biggest right-wing party. Motherhood was never mentioned.
I think ScarJo is very overrated as an actress, but I like her in these pictures and the interview is really good. She is smart, you have to give her that.
Nah, rather she is the typical pseudo-intellectual who thinks that if she attends enough Democratic conventions she will get rid of her (carefully crafted and overplayed btw) blonde bombshell image. I can count on two hands the number of celebrities who I would consider smart (Portman also wouldnt make it, lol).
Her acting is terribly overrated, even her looks are not top 100 material imo, but the one thing I can really give her is that her look/voice is unique.
She has the typical Nordic coloring, but still looks exotic due to her features (tall chin, wide cheeks/forehead, thick lips, nose, etc), paired with the husky voice.
Spooks
Thats interesting. What country?
@Mel, I’m from Croatia. I’ve mentioned a couple times before, we’re almost 90 percent Catholic, and our current prime minister is an atheist and our president is agnostic. Personal life isn’t that important when it comes to politicians, unless it’s some really big scandal. I don’t know the names of the president’s kids, his wife is rarely in the media and she still works, etc.
Parenthood as a job-requirement is bad enough, but this is sexist on top of that: “women have a different perspective and appreciation of humanity because of that maternal instinct.”
Poor blokes, apparently their lack of biscuits means they can’t enjoy the mystic connection to humanity that motherhood provides. *rolls eyes*
Like it or not, women and men ARE different. *shrug*
Beautiful photos.
Not all women have a maternal instinct.
I agree, and being a mother doesn’t automatically imbue a woman with wisdom and grace. I think it changes many women for the better and makes them deeper as a person, but so does fatherhood for many men. Frankly, I know plenty of shallow, self-centered mothers who are no more suited to lead the country than anyone else.
Elizabeth Warren in ’16 ! What? Oh, sorry, I thought this was a political thread.
YES. I’m making posters and tshirts now.
Coming from a country where voting is compulsory, I find it weird and don’t understand why America doesn’t do the same. Is there a reason?
There are people in this country who don’t want everyone to vote because they fear they’d lose so they do everything in their power to make sure that those who would vote against them are unable to do so. Sad, but true.
I agree that voting is important, but it got harder and harder in recent years. The Democrats have gone way to far to the center, and well, I would never vote Republican. And voting for someone else is almost pointless, what can you do?
Lucija, that is so sad that you so flippantly say you would never vote Republican. I was a registered Republican but voted Democrat when I thought it was a better candidate. And I bet you feel comfortable saying that Republicans are the closed minded party, right? How sad and small minded of you.
Because the entire point of America (in theory) is that nothing is compulsatory. Americans have the freedom to exercise their right to vote, but also have the freedom not to if they so choose. The idea is that you feel a personal responsibility to vote, and take advantage of your right to do so. Not everyone feels this way.
THIS. Thank you.
It’s actually one of the more positive things about democracy in general. Nobody should be forced, shamed, or bullied into voting unless they want to.
Obviously you can say that those people shouldn’t complain in case they don’t get their way after, however like it was mentioned above sometimes the pickings are soo scarce and you know what you will get it makes no sense.
Thankfully, in my country it isnt mandatory. I would want to vote if it would make any difference but unfortunately there is no party TO vote for. Two big parties who battle it out, both were in office for long numbers of years, still the same as they were in the 80’s, and no new parties are developing. Even if they are, they can never get above 2%, not even enough to reach the limit of 5% and at least have a couple of representatives in the parliament :S
@idontknowyou,
I think a good many Americans feel that way as well. I know for me, I always vote because it is my civic duty and I am extremely lucky to live in a country where I even have the option. Personal responsibility and all that. But I can pretty sternly say that I have never actually voted FOR anyone. Just for the lesser of two evils… the least worst candidate. Politics is depressing.
“It’s actually one of the more positive things about democracy in general. Nobody should be forced, shamed, or bullied into voting unless they want to.”
What? The countries with compulsory voting are also democracies. Democracy is kind of the whole point of holding a vote in the first place. If they weren’t democracies there’d be no voting at all.
I have no idea where you’ve got the idea that compulsory voting is somehow non-democratic.
Get involved locally- many 3rd party candidates can win in local elections and have a major impact
It’s crazy that some Americans would feel they are exercising their freedom by not voting… this directly affects you and your life but you feel it’s better to NOT vote?!? Yet how many of these people still whinge about their lives/their country/their job/their taxes/their president etc.
It isn’t freedom leaving the rule of your country up to others or chance.. this is how things can spiral out of control! Democracy is about hearing all the voices!
Crazy!
She’s a pretty woman. I actually like her.
Cropped pants/jeans on dudes is a thing now. Very trendy.
Weird that they are discussing US politics in a UK fashion mag.
The maternal instinct that made Hillary vote for the Iraq invasion and declare during her presidential campaign that she was in favor of keeping american tropps in Iraq to protect “American interests” (aka oil fields) while letting the Iraki civil war go on with no american intervention, that maternal psychopath?
Oh but that her maternal instinct since she tough the oil was her baby or her precious but people do have a habit of forgetting this kind of thing or hey even the whistler blower like snowed that just came out the US was paying of Brazil and Mexico but hey don’t worry this is just US motherly insects
“US motherly insects”
Best part of this post.
Get your facts straight. She did not vote for an immediate pull out of troops because it would have de-stabilized the region and put our troops and civilians at risk. Your oil theory is just that. A theory.
I am not pro Hilary. She needs to answer for Benghazi, and so far has not. But it bothers me when people post such biased tripe.
Get your facts straight:
“In a half-hour interview on Tuesday in her Senate office, Mrs. Clinton said the scaled-down American military force that she would maintain in Iraq after taking office would stay off the streets in Baghdad and would no longer try to protect Iraqis from sectarian violence — even if it descended into ethnic cleansing”
“She said in the interview that there were “remaining vital national security interests in Iraq” that would require a continuing deployment of American troops.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/washington/14cnd-clinton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
And read the NYT reader’s reactions to her interview, short an to the point
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/opinion/l17iraq.html
One of them below:
“To the Editor:
According to your article, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would not try to protect Iraqis from sectarian violence even if it descended into ethnic cleansing. It is comforting to know up front that as president she would do no more to stop genocide in Iraq than the current president is doing in Sudan or the previous one did in Rwanda.
Apparently even though she knows now what she didn’t know then, she still would do nothing.
Let’s have a conversation.
Peter Feinman
Port Chester, N.Y., March 15, 2007”
Well, she couldn’t possibly be worse than the petulant little dictator we’ve got in there now.
+1 LOL. I’m not so sure about that though.
+1 on this! lol
Everyone has their opinion, but the phrase “petulant little dictator” isn’t even accurate. And it kind of smacks like something that came from the mouth of Rush and similar blowhards.
I really, really love Scarlett Johanson. I really do. I think she’s smart and talented and beautiful and I’ve rarely seen a movie of hers that I haven’t liked. Usually, I like the things she says. She is one of my number one Hollywood crushes. That being said, her statements on Hillary bother me. How about her making a good president because she’s smart, tough, knows DC, and is a respected figure on the world stage? Michelle Bachman is a mother. Sarah Palin is a mother. That doesn’t make them favorable candidates in my opinion. How about we take the woman thing out of the equation and just allow them to be candidates.
Catherine the Great is one of the most well-regarded female leaders in history. One of the poster children for “Women making it in a man’s world”. Her role as a mother to her children was… minimal. Elizabeth I never had kids. Are maternal instincts a great thing? Yes. Boudicca fought her wars for her children. But they’re not necessarily what will make a woman a great leader. What will make a woman a great leader is the same as what will make a man a great leader: intellect, true interest in the best interests of their people, the proper talents, strength, grasp of politics and economics, etc.
I think Hillary could make a fantastic president. But I’d think that if she were childless.
perfect post!!!!
So true. My love affair really took hold during the primaries when she had even the left on cable networks making mysogynistic comments that would never be said about a man, commenting on her clothes, etc., and so many were clearly in Obama’s camp, and she never whined (like Sarah) and showed her brilliance in debates and stayed strong until the very end. She came out of Bill’s shadow when the chips were down for her and she showed what she was made of the last half of her campaign, and her concession speech was filled with grace.
WendyNerd: I agree entirely with your point, accept for one minor sentence. And bonus points for using Boudicca as evidence mostly because ScarJo and her pseudo intellectualism would be flummoxed if you asked her, “what about the female leader Boudicca? Do you think she is a good example to support your argument that maternal instincts = optimal leader? And could you also comment on how Margaret of Anjou, Mary of Guise, and Agrippina the Younger might substantiate your contention? Please explain.” Methinks she would be stumped even after consulting Wikipedia as well as the great and powerful OZ of pseudo intellectualism, and ex boyfriend, Sean Penn. Both Scarface and Penn are the epitome of celebrities “who can’t think good.” Random aside: SJ has always reminded me of a cow who forgets to shut their mouth when it rains and consequently drowns if left outside the barn during a storm.
I actually think she does pretty well for a woman who didn’t go to college. Sean Penn annoys me more. To me he is the epitome of a guy who thinks his shit doesn’t stink and that he’s better than everyone. ScarJo at least doesn’t come off as though she’s trying to be smarter than anyone, just intelligent. That, for me, is a major difference. If you’re trying to be smart, good for you. If you’re trying to be smarter than me, eat it.
Well said, WendyNerd!
Nothing in this world will ever make me cast a vote for any Clinton.
Scarlett’s logic in supporting Hillary is stupifying.
Especially for an actress so pretentious
I think I like Scarlett more knowing she is pro Hillary! That being said I am rather confident Hillary is running in 2016. You can look it up anywhere. I’d be very surprised if she didn’t!
First she has to answer for what happened in Benghazi. Anyone who was in a leadership role at the time has either resigned or left office. None of the key players has talked and it will haunt them.
Of course, the Republican’s are struggling mightily, so who knows? The Democrat’s could nominate Honey Boo Boo, and she would win against them right now.
I want a person in office who has experience..as they say “a little gray around the temples” A woman would be wonderful…a business woman would be a dream come true. After all, we know how to balance a budget.
Yes, speaking of Benghazi, how about Clinton banging on a table and screaming “what does it matter?!” when asked about the death of the diplomat Chris Stevens. Not exactly presidential material, but the name “Clinton” has rock star status to so many people, for reasons unbeknownst to me.
@Elle – I am so sick of this constant Benghazi refrain. If only certain politicians hadn’t voted to reduce security budgets that might not have happened. Or maybe it might have; diplomats and spies know what risks they’re taking when they work for us overseas. His death was a tragedy, as were those that happened while Bush was in office, but this constant whining about the tragedy just sounds like a desperate party in hope of some dirt.
And governmental budgets are supposed to run with a certain level of deficit, unlike home and business budgets.
Because she did so well as Sec of State???? Not….
Thank you. It would be nice if people that voiced their opinions (celebrities) did a little research and homework on their politics and track record for politicians. Yikes.
How did she not do a good job?
I am HUGELY on board with Hillary running in 2016, and look forward with hope to the day we elect our first woman President. I am on board with women entering the race, you BETCHA!
I am old enough to remember when Geraldine Ferraro ran as VP on the ticket with Walter Mondale (in 1984). I was so excited, even back then, at the idea that a WOMAN could be involved in pro active decision making for the masses. I am PRO EQUALITY.
If another woman were running, I would be interested in learning about her perspectives as well, but in all honesty, I still have my “Hillary for President” shirt from 2008 . . .
S is gorgeous in this spread – LOVE the pics and darker hair and lipstick, and am even more loving that she feels voting and knowing our country’s politics is important.
I refuse to take political advice from someone who dated Sean Penn
I refuse to take political advice from someone who dated Sean Penn.
Why not? Sean Penn is one of the most politically active actors out there.
Did YOU give up everything to volunteer in Haiti for months?
Nicegirl, Jayna, Gabby- I love it when stupid people try debate- so precious, like a fawn trying to stand up for the first time (except, a fawn will eventually succeed at their task. You, not so much). And btw, Gabby, are you actually saying that Sean Penn with all of his roid rage is worth listening to because he gave up months of his life to volunteer in Haiti? Forgive me if I disagree with your position that pretentiously parading around Haiti in a bullet proof vest = qualified dictator of my political decisions. There’s this one thing I heard of where people give up four years of their life to get a basic college degree, and then use their own brain to make sensible decisions personally, professionally, and politically (while working to pay for it). It actually doesn’t even require the college degree part, just a reasonable degree of dubiousness when it comes to letting anyone else think for you and a pinch of self reliance. You might want to try it at some point or maybe it would be best if you just become a scientologist.
EleanorofAquitaineforpresident2016 says: I love your CB handle as i adore Eleanor of Aquitaine.
That’s all.
OOH, Eleanor of wherever, sweetie, I take issue with being called stupid . . . look in the mirror first, honeybee.
My opinions do not make me stupid. Responding to you, however . . .
I will go into a depression if Hillary doesn’t run.
Oh, wow stop the presses. “Intellectual” ScarJo is giving her unqualified opinion on political matters. Ugh. Such a pet peeve these celebrities – people are not exactly particularly educated or knowledgeable – feel their opinion really matters. No much more than say my cat’s. I personally would care more what a PoliSci or History or Economics professor thinks than Self Important Celeb Du Jour.
the styling, the hair tints, the mention…is ScarJo campaigning for the titular role in the supposed Hilary Clinton biopic?
The woman caught lying about various incidents such as not ‘knowing’ about a political figure being tortured in another country is suitable for being the President? Uh no.
Why would a warmongerer like hillary clinton make good president.The role she played in Iraq war should not be forgetten.
I like Scarlett Johansson’s movies that I have seen, I think she is very pretty… But Lord, is she a blow hard. Every interview sounds like a college interview, trying to impress the dean with her usage of unnecessary wording to try to sound as smart as possible. I am not a fan of celebs who think they’re house speakers for congress. Her and Eva Longoria should talk to each other so no one else has to listen.
I hate it when celebrities give their opinions on politics. The two should not be combined. As for Scarlett.. She’s ok.
Have to agree with the girl.
I voted for her in the primary, really wanted her to get the nomination. Oh well, here’s hoping for 2016!