Scarlett Johansson

Johansson stated that OpenAI had released a ChatGPT voice, Sky, which she considered 'eerily similar' to her own, after she had declined an offer to lend her voice to the product. She instructed lawyers to obtain explanations about the creation process.

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An advertisement for the Lisa AI app used real footage of Johansson to generate an artificial version of her appearance and fabricated dialogue implying that she endorsed the tool. Her legal team intervened over unauthorised use of her name and likeness.

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Johansson sued Disney, maintaining that the simultaneous release of Black Widow in cinemas and on Disney+ breached contractual commitments concerning a theatrical release and reduced her box-office-linked remuneration.

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Johansson stated that she loved Woody Allen, believed in his innocence and would work with him again, while several actors had distanced themselves from the filmmaker following renewed attention to Dylan Farrow's sexual abuse allegations.

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Johansson was due to portray Dante 'Tex' Gill, a transgender man, in Rub & Tug. Trans actors and activists criticised the choice of a cisgender actress and the scarcity of roles given to trans performers. Her initial response, referring to other cisgender actors who had played trans characters, intensified the controversy.

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The decision to cast Johansson as the heroine in the American remake of Japanese work Ghost in the Shell prompted major controversy over whitewashing and the shortage of leading roles for actors of Asian descent in Hollywood.

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Johansson agreed to become a SodaStream ambassador while the company operated a factory in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Oxfam, for which she had served as a global ambassador for several years, considered this partnership incompatible with its policy on settlements.

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