Slowing Down Like Scarlett – The New York Times

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Slowing Down Like Scarlett – The New York Times

With Melissa Kirsch — the regular writer of our Saturday newsletter — off today, we’re going to turn to another source for some life guidance: Scarlett Johansson.

Maureen Dowd, the Times columnist, has just published a profile of Johansson that covers a lot of ground, including how she became one of the top-grossing actors of all time while also confronting both Disney and OpenAI. Despite all this, as Maureen explains, Johansson manages to carve out a surprising amount of normalcy in her life.

“She goes to the supermarket,” Colin Jost, the Saturday Night Live star, who’s married to Johansson, said. “She’s just very good at wearing a hat, and she keeps moving.” She spends hours walking around New York in white Hoka sneakers.

As I read the profile, I was struck that Johansson also rejects modern normalcy in some important ways. She tries to move more slowly and deliberately, with fewer distractions, than is typical these days. Maureen writes:

At a time when everyone always seems one-half there, the other half absorbed by their fiendish little devices, Ms. Johansson is intensely present. She stays off social media; she doesn’t want to share her life with strangers, which gives her mystique in an overexposed world. Her large green eyes stay trained on me for nearly two hours, asking nearly as many questions as she fields.

Johansson likes to hang out in Central Park, she said, and she showers “a few times a day.”

So on this summer Saturday, when much of the country will be hot and humid, allow me to suggest that you find a way to slow down, too. Read a book (or Maureen’s delightful profile of Johansson). Take a walk — and an extra shower. Enjoy a leisurely last-minute meal with friends. And find a few hours to put away your fiendish little device. It will still be there, with all its sources of entertainment and outrage, when you return.

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