![]() ![]() ![]() She is surrounded by a small army of publicists and minders. She's in spiky heels and a silky top and is groomed and coiffed with eyelashes like a camel's and a river of shining blond hair that flows around her shoulders. She's been installed in a fancy suite in New York's Waldorf Astoria and has shed the ugly jeans and cheap boots. When I meet her, however, Johansson, 29, is back in full Hollywood mode. Celebrities may not be an actual master race – yet – but there is something weirdly jarring about seeing someone familiar from a thousand red-carpet photographs, walking down an ordinary high street full of the ordinary faces of ordinary lives. It turns out that transplanting a major Hollywood celebrity to a down-at-heel, working-class Scotland is about as close as you can get to seeing an alien walk among us. And Scarlett Johansson sitting in front of an electric fire in a council house watching Tommy Cooper on TV. Scarlett Johansson being given directions to Asda. Scenes include Scarlett Johansson on a bus. We watch her prowling the outskirts of Glasgow, the in-between lands of industrial parks and council estates, looking for fresh man meat, and there is an eerie sense of alien universes colliding. In reality, it's because we know she's Scarlett Johansson. Theoretically, this is because, in Under the Skin, a low-budget sci-fi indie adapted from a Michel Faber novel, we know she's an alien. Strip a star of their Hollywood get-up, remove them from their Bel Air mansions, and it turns out that they look just like the rest of us. ![]() Yet, there she is, in her latest film, in a pair of stonewashed jeans and a fake fur coat, walking down a busy shopping street in Glasgow and, well, blending in. And not just any Hollywood star but Scarlett Johansson, twice crowned Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive", three times Woody Allen muse, Bafta winner, noted beauty. T here is something very levelling about seeing a major Hollywood star walking past Primark. ![]()
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