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The actress says her involvement in the Noah Baumbach film, which follows her character's separation from Adam Driver's stage director, was a deeply personal endeavor.

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00:00They say life imitates art, but for Scarlett Johansson, her latest film, Marriage Story,

00:15was a bit more like art imitating life. Noah Baumbach's new feature explores the pain and

00:21hardships of divorce, with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver playing an actress and stage

00:25director who are seeking an amicable split. But their high-powered attorneys played by

00:30Laura Dern, Alan Alda and Ray Liotta have other plans. The film was extremely personal for both

00:35Baumbach, whose 2013 divorce to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh was the subject of several tabloids,

00:41and Johansson, whose divorce from Ryan Reynolds in 2011 and Roman Doriak in 2017 was also highly publicized.

00:48The actress explains that her reasons for joining the film were very much based on her own experiences,

00:52saying, there's so much of all of us in this film that's out there for everyone to see.

00:56Johansson says she originally met with the director to discuss the film, not knowing what the project

01:01was even about.

01:02When I met with Noah, I was going through a divorce, and I didn't know what we were meeting about at all,

01:07and he didn't know I was going through a divorce. But the actress says the project felt sort of faded

01:11in a way, and added, it was an experience to share with him and have him share with me, and it somehow

01:16came at just the right time. The director explains that the thought process behind the film was

01:21exploring a marriage by looking at a divorce, saying,

01:24It was something that I discovered in writing, is that when something stops working,

01:27you actually acknowledge it or recognize it for the first time.

01:30Marriage Story premieres in Venice on Thursday. The film will hit theaters for a limited release

01:35on November 6th before streaming on Netflix on December 6th. For more on this story,

01:39head to THR.com and until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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