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Scarlet Johansson

Last updated: 3/21/2025

Scarlett Johansson

Actor who - according to Tom Wilkinson in an interview with Simon discussing A Good Woman - pronounces her name with a hard "j" (rather than a "y" sound). Martin in Old Portsmouth confirmed this in one of his regular missives, admitting how difficult it was hard to concede that Mark was right about this (there had been a row with Phil Williams the week before, which had literally descended into Mark telling Phil he was right because he just was), but "the Exorcist still isn't scary, and Elvis died on the toilet wearing a nappy."

Mark liked Johansson when she first broke through with Ghost World, but by the time she was making things like The Devil Wears Nappies and He's Just Not That Into U2 she was simply terrible.