From Child Prodigy to Global Icon: Scarlett Johansson and the Discreet Power of the Greatest Actress in History

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Her first thought was that she would never be an actress. Before she was even old enough to attend high school, the New York girl who spent her days between tap classes, singing and performing convinced her mother to attend a meeting with an agent of actors. The representative, who already took a friend of her older brother, received her, listened to her... and refused to represent her. As Scarlett Johansson (New York, 40 years old) joked, years…