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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Scarlett Johansson (June 2023)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Politics, News, Celebrity, Music, Broadway, Society & Culture, Interview, Movies, Pop Culture, Tv & Film, Technology, Tv

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Willie sits down with one of the biggest stars on the planet: Scarlett Johansson. They discuss stepping into the world of Wes Anderson in the new film, "Asteroid City", the secret behind the success of her new beauty line, "The Outset", and much more. (Original broadcast date June 18, 2023.)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:09.8

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. I am very excited to bring you my

0:15.0

conversation this week because man we landed a big one for you. She is one of the

0:19.6

biggest stars on the planet Scarlet Joe Hanson. Yeah, Scarlet

0:23.3

Johanson. She's starring in the new West Anderson movie called

0:27.0

Asteroid City. I will let her explain it to you but you get it. It's

0:31.0

West Anderson. It's completely unique. It's beautiful. It's interesting. It's a little weird in all the best ways.

0:38.3

Has an incredible cast and you'll hear her talk about the experience of shooting this movie with this amazing group of Academy Award winners that got together to do this movie.

0:47.0

So a lot to talk about in terms of her film career.

0:50.0

We talk a little Marvel movies.

0:52.0

We get into her start. Her first movie was at nine years old in a Rob Reiner film

0:56.6

and it's just been a rocket ship to the moon since then, including the movie that kind of broke her out into adult stardom. Lost in translation, where she played

1:04.4

alongside Bill Murray, that movie came out 20 years ago, which I kind of shocked her when I broke

1:10.1

that news to her. We got together at the offices of the skin broke that

1:12.8

the offices of the skin care company she co-founded just over a year ago

1:17.7

March of 2022.

1:19.4

It's called the outset.

1:21.4

So you'll, we're sitting in her office and when I say office you might imagine this big

1:27.2

skincare l'oryal thing.

1:29.0

No, it's like a room on a floor in a building in New York City.

1:34.7

It is truly a scrappy startup, small group of people

1:37.4

and they're sitting at one of the desks

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