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Scarlett Johansson Stars In New UNDER THE SKIN Featurette

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Check out the new behind-the-scenes featurette for UNDER THE SKIN starring Scarlett Johansson. From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial — or something in between.

Johansson describes the experience as nothing less than intoxicating because it allowed the very visible actress to go undercover in real life, undetected and in an entirely unpredictable fashion. “You have to get all your ducks in a row so you don’t blow your own cover,” Johansson explains of her process. “You also want to make sure that each take includes something useful. There were moments — and these were truly terrifying — when you felt like you couldn’t do something, or you didn’t know if a scene was going to emerge out of nothing. You had no choice but to go with it, which is when the scene would usually start to take shape.”

A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring this succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.

Johansson adjusts to life in new human skin, struggling to make sense of a world that is entirely foreign to her as her alien perspective melds with a human one. “It was a kind of metamorphosis, but there was also something metaphysical about playing this character,” Johansson explains. “It’s hard to put your finger on it and that was part of its appeal for me. This is not a genre movie. It’s more along the lines of an Ingmar Bergman drama in terms of its philosophical inquiry.”

Based on the novel by Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White), UNDER THE SKIN examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.

UNDER THE SKIN is now playing in NY and LA, and expands nationwide throughout April.

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