Scarlett Johansson on the Today Show: Something strange is happening here.
SlateIt’s unlikely that Scarlett Johansson co-hosting the final hour of the Today Show would crack any future list of the 10, or maybe even 50, most memorable or important things that happened the week of Jan. 20, 2025, given, well, everything. For an infrequent watcher, the Today Show, and Hager’s hour in particular, is a surreal place: It’s the kind of environment where Hager seems absolutely bowled over by the coincidence of discovering that Johansson’s birthday is just three days before her own. Today is a show for the masses, and with Johansson being best known these days for her role as Marvel’s Black Widow, perhaps that’s not so big a leap. But when Johansson first shot to fame, it was as the star of movies like Lost in Translation, and that’s another strange aspect of this: Imagine telling your 20-years-ago self that the young lady you just saw starring in a plaintive Sofia Coppola drama was going to be whooping it up on TV next to one of then-President George W. Bush’s daughters.
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