Scarlett Johansson made my day weird, but in a good way. I noticed on Amazon Prime that they were offering the movie Under the Skin
I don’t hate ScarJo but she’s not an actress that I generally seek out the movies of, but I remembered a scifi movie with her and Morgan Freeman being promoted not too long ago and while my mom saw it and thought it was dumb, I had some administrative tasks to deal with and I figured I’d turn it on in the background.
Twenty minutes into it, and I’ve seen a lot of Scarlett. More than I’d ever anticipated seeing of her. And no Morgan Freeman. And the movie is… intriguing. Mostly silent. I’m not seeing anything that I recognized from the trailers, but a whole lot of Kubrik-like direction and Glasgow accents.
What in the hell am I watching?
Well, it wasn’t Lucy.
It was a very intriguing sci fi film that, like Snowpiercer,
After the movie, I wondered what movie I’d thought I was going to watch and looked up Scarlett Johansson’s name and an article popped up about her looking at properties in LA. Now, I’m not a big “let’s learn about all the private lives of celebrities” but I do enjoy seeing celebrity homes. I don’t know if there’s some architecture perv support group or what, but I just find it interesting. I do use what I’ve seen in writing sometimes. Goldie and Jett’s home in Double Black (Black Gold 2)
In the first book, Black Gold, I had an image in my mind of Ellen, Goldie’s mom’s, house. I hadn’t shopped for it like I did Jett and Goldie’s, but just had, in my mind, a blueprint and style of architecture and decoration.
Apparently, Scarlett Johansson toured the house that I’d pictured as Ellen’s. She didn’t buy it, which… it’s weird to me that a house Scarlett Johansson didn’t buy made the news, but also weird that she toured a house that I thought I’d made up!
See what I pictured as Ellen’s house!
See Under the Skin,
