The reason why Scarlett Johansson agreed to appear in 'Under the Skin'
Jonathan Glazer's film had almost no commercial career in theaters, but over the years it has become a cult and reference title.
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Scarlett Johansson has never been in favor of appearing nak** before the cameras. The exception, and also with a full nu** scene, has been the sci-fi thriller Under the Skin. The film directed by the Englishman Jonathan Glazer, adapting a novel by Michel Faber, began its presentation tour in 2013 through various festivals such as Telluride, Venice, Toronto or London at a time when the actress, then 28 years old, was in the height of his career (a height that, fortunately, he still maintains).
The year before, she had debuted as Marvel's Black Widow in the blockbuster The Avengers, a box office phenomenon. Which was not an obstacle for her to agree to participate in another production with a fantastic aspect, although very different, of an author, with a low budget and aimed at a much more minority audience. The scenes of her nud** were in general shot, except in one, the most commented and in front of the mirror, looking at her body. It was not for less, her character was an alien of indeterminate se** who took on the appearance of a beautiful woman. And her mission on Earth was to attract men who would later, and after a no less strange ritual, serve as food for her kind.
Via Cinemablend we found out the reason why she ended up agreeing to go out nak**, through a recent interview with W Magazine, and it lies in the fact that her nud** were not se**: "She was a totally different species, so nud** was functional. She also had brown hair. And this was my idea, I didn't want her to be some kind of blonde bombshell. She would be nud**, but not se**."
The images of Scarlett "uncovered" soon spread like wildfire across the Internet. She garnered enormous attention and headlines, but not interest in Jonathan Glazer's film, which virtually no one ever saw in theaters. Despite the fact that its budget was only 13.3 million dollars, it would only raise 7.2. In many countries, including Spain, it was never released.
Not even in its screenings at the Venice Film Festival did they convince a divided critic, most of them with negative opinions, considering it too cold and unconvincing a film. It was definitely weird, very weird, and hermetic. A clean slate? Well no. With the passage of time it has become consolidated as a cult title and there are not a few lovers of the fantastic who consider it one of the best proposals of the genre of the last two decades. There is also a project to make a series that, according to those responsible, "will take inspiration from both the novel and the film."
This consideration that it has been taking as a reference film meant that, despite the fact that seven years had passed since the production of the film, the distributor Avalon had persisted and succeeded in its efforts to acquire it. And it would have been shown in a very limited number of theaters in Spain at the end of last April, before its release on blu-ray and streaming (the forecast was for this May 20 on the Filmin platform).
It has not been possible, due to the coronavirus and the closure of theaters, but Avalon continues to maintain its idea that one day it can be shown on the big screen, and then launch that special edition on blu-ray by Cameo (the distributor of DVD and blu-ray of the movies from the Avalon catalog in theaters), and surely also coinciding with its availability in streaming.
