At the age of nine, the actress and producer of ‘Black Widow’ made her on-screen debut with a family comedy considered quite bad that curiously had a great cast.
Scarlett Johansson’s career is marked by great performances that have even led her to compete for Hollywood’s biggest prize at the Oscars. We have seen her in productions such as Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit as well as in the UCM, her playing Black Widow and she has even participated in not so well-known gems such as Under the Skin.
However, his first foray into cinema occurred in the same story in which we saw Bruce Willis in the padded costume of a pink rabbit: A Boy Called North. At the young age of 9, the actress of Danish origin got a small role in this film directed by Rob Reiner in which she played Laura Nelson, a young girl who was a member of a test family for Norte.
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This is probably the first time you know regarding the existence of the film, and we understand that, since despite having a magnificent cast that included Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Dan Aykroyd from Ghostbusters and Julia Louis-Dreyfus from Seinfeld, the film was a failure at the box office. Its budget was 40 million dollars and the supposed family comedy only managed to raise 12 million worldwide.
And although A Boy Called North received a lot of criticism, including that from Rogert Ebert who did not spare his hatred of the film, the bad fortune of the production did not affect Scarlett Johansson’s career one bit.
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Among Johansson’s latest projects is her character as Midge Campbell in Asteroid City, a feature film by Wes Anderson and we are waiting to see her debut as a film director since she is already preparing her film Eleanor the Great.
In any case, we leave you what A Boy Called North is regarding. North (Wood) is the son that all parents want: he is educated, intelligent, has good grades and is also an excellent baseball player. But North’s parents (Alexander and Louis-Dreyfus) barely have time to spend with him, as they are busy most of the time with his careers.
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A man dressed as an Easter bunny (Willis), who acts as North’s conscience and advisor, suggests that if he is so dissatisfied with his parents, he should seek refuge elsewhere. North then goes to a lawyer (Jon Lovitz), who takes the case to court. The boy has two months to find new parents, otherwise he would end up in a foster home…
