Scarlett Johansson reveals Joaquin Phoenix’s reaction when they recorded her fake orgasms for “Her”

Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation”, “Marriage Story”) caught up with Dax Shepard on Monday to speak on her “Armchair Expert” podcast. In the two-hour episode, Shepard asks about her experience of her making some of her most famous films about her and her actress. not afraid to dig into the past to reveal, with a sense of humor, some of the most embarrassing or complicated anecdotes.

For this the film ‘Her’, written and directed by Spike Jonze, stands out, which earned him the Oscar for best original screenplay, in which Johansson voices Samantha, a Siri-like operating system installed on the phone of a man, Theodore, and with whom he forms a love affair beyond the known limits. Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”, “Walk the Line”) was his romantic interest. The moment the actress remembers with the greatest shame was when human and artificial intelligence have phone sex, because they had to record fake orgasms in a study.

Johansson says he mentally prepared himself that day to have an attitude of “get dirty”well otherwise “I would have been petrified”. However, the situation was undoubtedly uncomfortable when they started recording. “Joaquin is on his way, we tried to make a recovery, but he didn’t succeed”she says, noting that Phoenix looked angry, despite having already filmed the same scene in person. There is no doubt that things were different in a studio, where, as the actress recounts, “you are in a box, in a strange theater, the lights are low, he was looking at me and Spike is there”. He adds that she wore it well, but the actor didn’t. “He left the studio, he needed a break”.

“You don’t want to hear your voice in life again, of course”says Scarlett. “You don’t want to hear what you sound like when you have an orgasm. Definitely you don’t want to hear how you sound when you have a fake orgasm”admits between laughter. Even though “Her” was released nearly ten years ago, Johansson says so “even thinking about it now makes me panic”. However, defends and recommends shamequalifying it as “the deepest and purest sensation there is”.

Although he only acts with his voice, the role earned her several nominations for Best Supporting Actress. “We shot the movie like fourteen or fifteen times”invoice. “We’ve done it so many times. Over and over.”. He describes it as “one of the most demanding jobs I’ve ever done “.

sex in the industry

The podcast covers many topics, one of which is the sexualization within the industry, to which especially young actresses are subjected, and of which she herself was a victim when she started her career so young. She remembers that she was only seventeen when she starred in “Lost in Translation” and like her over time has been pigeonholed in a “strange hypersexualization”.