- I'm Scarlett Johansson

and these are the highlights of my career.

- What can I get you?

- I'm not sure.

- For relaxing times,

make it Suntory time. - Make it Suntory time.

- I started working when I was eight years old.

I had met Sofia before.

I remember her telling,

she was a big fan of a film I did when I was 10,

called "Manny and Lo".

- But I'd rather be with Lo any day.

She's my sister

and she's good people.

- And then a few years later,

I'd met her for "The Virgin Suicides" for something.

I don't remember which part it was

or if I did a reading for her.

And so, it wasn't,

I hadn't heard from Sofia in a few years.

I was 17 and took a meeting with her

about something that she was writing

and it turned out to be "Lost in Translation".

And she was in the middle of writing it.

I think I committed to the project

before the script was finished

based on the fact that I was working opposite Bill Murray

and I was such an enormous fan of his.

- How long you been married?

- Oh, thank you.

Hmm, two years.

- 25 long ones.

- You're probably just having a midlife crisis.

Did you buy a Porsche yet?

- The shoot was really short.

It was only like 26 days or something like that.

So we shot really intensely for that time.

I was also 17 years old and I was in Tokyo.

My mom came with me, thankfully,

because it was kind of a isolating feeling.

We were working weird hours and working a lot.

And I kind of felt transient, in that space,

that head space that the character Charlotte is in,

a little bit,

where my life was kind of in between two places

and I was kind of like a girl/woman.

I thought it seemed like an adventurous project.

That's how that happened.

That's how it started.

- I'm not a baby.

I know a lot more than people think I know.

Beatrice says to be a woman, - Yes?

Yeah, why didn't she be a woman?

- I've never imagined

when we were doing "A View From the Bridge" that,

I never really thought about the Tonys

'cause I had never had an experience on Broadway before.

I hadn't done theater since I was like a kid,

and I was just learning so much,

really on the stage every night.

It was such an incredibly intense experience.

The work was really hard and really rewarding

and it was very, very exciting every night.

I never knew what was gonna happen.

And you know I was working against Liev Schreiber,

who is such a powerful actor.

Just being able to spend my nights,

you know, with Michael and Liev

and you know catch up and talk about what happened

on the stage that night,

and Greg Mosher directing it.

I felt so satisfied creatively,

doing that play.

And so you know, of course,

I felt very emotional at the Tony's because I...

The whole thing was so unexpected,

but it was

like just a treasure.

- Gee, I'm all mixed up.

- You ever box before?

- I have, yes.

- Like Tae Bo, booty boot camp, crunch,

something like that?

[clears throat]

- "Iron Man 2" was the first time

I'd ever had to combat train

and it was grueling.

I mean I found out that I had got the role

five weeks before we started shooting

and so I just had to transform in those five weeks,

and so it was a pretty intense time.

- Rule number one, never take your eye off your oppon--

[slam]

- Oh my god!

- It's actually been such a gift for me

because I was probably

maybe 23 or 24 at the time

and it actually gave me this

life of physical acumen I would

probably never have had otherwise.

And I learned

the base of a lot of,

you know, different martial arts

and how to be sort of a very amateur stunt woman.

Not that I would ever take the credit away

from the incredible stunt women

that have doubled me,

including Heidi Moneymaker,

who does all the,

that's her real name,

who has done a lot of Black Widow stuff with me.

Yeah, I learned so much from her during that experience.

I really learned how to do,

I mean how to throw a punch,

how to hold a weapon,

you know, all kinds of stuff like that.

[action music]

[soft piano music]

- It's pretty, what is that?

- Trying to write a piece of music that's

about what it feels like to be on the beach

with you right now.

- When I heard from my agent that Spike

was looking for a voice actor,

and I remember my agent saying,

"You know, it's a couple days of work

"on his new film".

And I thought all right, you know.

He's like,

"Do you wanna kinda go in and read with him a little bit?"

And okay, you know,

I like to do voice work anyway, you know.

I've always liked that

element of acting.

Well, first I read the script,

and I remember I called my agent

and I said, "I think this is pretty extensive.

"It seems like more than a couple of days of work."

But you know, who knows?

I didn't know anything about the project

and maybe Spike had something else in mind,

and so I went downtown to meet with him in his apartment.

And we started kind of pulling apart the script

and recording all of these pieces.

I think we were together for like eight hours

or something like that.

I thought, "God, this is like really a lot of work."

I didn't even realize I was auditioning.

I didn't know anything really about it.

We're at the end of it,

Spike said, "You know, I think we should...

"Thank you so much.

"We should keep kind of doing this".

And I thought,

"I think this is like a full job".

[laughs]

But it was so vague.

I guess he was kind of feeling it out,

and I think eventually he admitted to me,

and I was like the last actor he auditioned.

I guess it was an audition.

There was a lot of issues

with the character

and her story

and her evolution.

As Spike was kind of in post was finding

that the relationship between these two characters

was shifting as he was putting it together.

The character kind of needed to be fleshed out

almost as a whole,

I'd say, person even though she's an AI,

but she needed to feel like this

full dimensional character,

that had all this,

that had lived this whole full life.

[melodic piano music]

- In honor of your fifth time hosting,

we have a very special five timers jacket just for you.

- Ooh!

I think the most challenging part of hosting SNL

really is the stamina that it requires,

because that week of work is so intense

between whatever pieces you have to learn,

whether it's a song

or doing like a digital short

or whatever other kind of pre-tape you have to do.

Fittings,

promo stuff,

the monologue.

It's so much work for the host

and you're pulled in every different direction,

and everyone needs you all the time.

That is the most challenging thing.

It's just the stamina required to actually host the show,

but it's probably

like one of the singular most rewarding experiences

I've had in my career,

because when the show is good

the vibe, the buzz

that everybody's feeling afterward

is pretty exciting.

It's really fun.

And also because you get to work with all these

fantastic performers and comedians.

When you're having a great show,

they're also having a great show.

You know, it's just a wonderful collaborative feeling.

- Where's the new girl?

- Sorry, here.

- [Black Widow] You here to do your laundry?

- And to see a friend.

- Clearly your friend is fine.

- I'm really proud of "Endgame".

It was so ambitious.

I felt it really, strongly delivered.

I felt it was satisfying.

Actually I felt like "Endgame" elevated the genre

in a lot of ways

and it actually allowed all of us, as characters,

to have great dramatic moments,

where you don't normally have that much room

in those genre movies because they're so plot driven.

But this movie could actually,

it actually felt quite character driven.

I felt very emotional when I watched it

but also really proud of it.

- Let me go. [somber music]

- No.

Please, no.

- Someday you'll meet someone special.

- Why does everyone keep telling me that?

- Who else tells you that?

- I think what's really exciting about "Jojo Rabbit,"

is it's just very different.

It looks different.

The story is so original

and refreshing, you know?

When I read that script it was this perfect little gem.

It was such a beautiful, perfect script.

It was emotional and I cried

and I just found it so special.

Taika is obviously a, you know,

wellspring of creative energy.

He's an amazing comedian.

He's an incredible writer.

He's a fantastic dramatic actor,

and he understands

those many facets of,

you know,

performance of a story

and the value of them.

He's kind of a mad scientist.

He'll come up on the moment with these crazy speeches

and dialogue and suggestions

and you know,

he's got so much

sort of frenetic creative energy

that it's intoxicating.

"Jojo Rabbit" is not like any one thing.

It's super dynamic.

The most exciting thing to me is

that when movies like that are able to get made

the way they're supposed to,

they look like they're supposed to,

they're given attention and time and money.

They come out and people actually respond to them.

It's exciting because it shows you

that you can actually still make stuff like that.

That there's still a place for movies