On the occasion of the worldwide December 25th launch of the film THE SPIRIT by Frank Miller, the visionary director behind Sin City and 300, YOOX.COM meets the actress Scarlett Johansson, who selects an exclusive Dream Box dedicated to her character’s look.

THE SPIRIT, adapted from the comic book series by the legendary Will Eisner, transports us into an elegant world of adventure, danger, and love. Scarlett Johansson plays the part of Silken Floss, the icy assistant of the evil Octopus. An extremely intelligent, ambitious, rigid woman—who is also sexy and intriguing. The only person Octopus trusts, the master of crime’s irreplaceable right hand. Miller rewrote the Silken Floss character as a younger version of Eisner’s original: “Eisner’s character,” says the director, “was a sexually repressed astrophysicist, very stiff and in love with Spirit. I decided to change her and give Silken a turbulent youth.” Johansson was delighted to play this decisive character, which she describes as “very intelligent and easily bored. Silken is ready for adventure, helping this madman to traffic in drugs and wearing the most amazing clothes. Nothing feels real for her, partly because she probably makes regular use of her stash of drugs. It’s a strange phase in her life and who knows what will happen to her later.”

SCARLETT JOHANSSON’S DREAM BOX

BIOGRAPHY

With a career spanning more than a decade, the four-time Golden Globes® nominee and the BAFTA winner SCARLETT JOHANSSON (Silken Floss) has proved to be one of Hollywood’s most talented young actresses. Her performance alongside Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola’s second film, Lost in Translation won her both critical acclaim as well as the award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.
Johansson played the leading role in Girl with a Pearl Earring, the movie adaptation of the best-selling novel about the painter Vermeer (Colin Firth).
February 2008 saw the release of Sony Pictures’ The Other Boleyn Girl, in which she appeared alongside Natalie Portman and Eric Bana. She is currently working on three films, including He’s Just Not That Into You and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Johansson first commanded wide attention at the age of 12, in her role as Grace MacClean, the traumatized young girl in Robert Redford’s film The Horse Whisperer. She followed with her work in Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, which brought her an award from the Toronto Film Critics Circle for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in the Coen brothers’ dark drama, The Man Who Wasn’t There alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand.
Johansson’s other films include the acclaimed movie In Good Company by the Weitz brothers, A Love Song for Bobby Long alongside John Travolta—which earned her the third Golden Globe nomination in two years— and Woody Allen’s Match Point, which gave her a fourth consecutive nomination from the Golden Globes. Other roles include those in The Island with Ewan McGregor, The Black Dahlia by Brian De Palma, The Prestige by Christopher Nolan and The Nanny Diaries.
Johansson has appeared in the Rob Reiner comedy North, in the thriller Just Cause with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne, and in an important part in the acclaimed Manny & Lo when she was just ten years old, which earned her a nomination for Best Actress by the Independent Spirit Awards.
Born in New York, Scarlett made her first professional appearance as an actress at the age of eight, in an off-Broadway production of Sophistry with Ethan Hawke, at the Playwright’s Horizons of New York.
She currently lives between New York and Los Angeles.