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'I'm learning how to be alone': The hottest leading lady of all time Scarlett Johansson on marriage, men and declaring war on Donald Trump Scarlett Johansson – the biggest female box-office draw of all time – pulls no punches about abusive men, her political ambitions... and those skin-tight superhero suits Scarlett Johansson arrives alone. This is a surprise. Hollywood superstars usually come with spin doctors and minders, but the most successful female actor of all time, whose films have grossed $3.6 billion, turns up all on her own, slipping into a quiet corner of a bar near her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan without anybody really noticing. ‘Hey, how ya doing?’ When she speaks, heads turn. The accent is native New Yorker, but the voice is deep, smoky and unmistakably that of Scarlett Johansson – Black Widow in the Avengers movies, star of Lost In Translation and the voice of Kaa in The Jungle Book – as she shrugs off a rain-soaked parka. ‘I’m a private person and I live a pretty low-key lifestyle as much as I can. Living in New York aids that. I was born and raised here so I can scurry around the streets like any other city rat.’ She feels completely at home, which may be why Johansson is in a surprisingly combative mood. She’ll explain why she’s going into real-life battle with Donald Trump, whose attitudes to women appall her. And talking of abusive men, Johansson will describe how she and her friends actually caught one when they were teenagers. When challenged about wearing a skin-tight, sexy superhero costume yet again for Ghost In The Shell, she’ll point out that the likes of Chris Evans as Captain America in The Avengers have their assets on show too. Scarlett Johansson is ready to come out fighting, then. But there’s another fight going on that I can’t see. We’re having this conversation before news breaks of her divorce from Romain Dauriac, the French advertising executive she married in 2014, a month after the birth of their daughter, Rose. She admits they are having a hard time trying to work out where to settle their daughter. ‘I work a lot so I don’t really live anywhere for very long periods of time. Sometimes I live in Paris for a couple of months, then I have a job some place and then I come back to New York. I guess my base is New York-ish, ’cos my family is here. But my husband’s family is all in Paris so we try to spend a lot of time there also. Especially now that we have Rose.’ She travels constantly, and so far has been taking Rose with her everywhere. But they’ll have to decide where to settle Rose when she goes to school, won’t they? ‘Yeah, then we’ll all be in one place,’ she tells me, sounding conflicted but hopeful. But the next morning, it all begins to look very difficult indeed Newspaper reports say that she and Dauriac are separating. They begin a court battle over custody of Rose. Johansson is only 32 and it looks like she is about to end a second marriage. The first was to Ryan Reynolds (star of Deadpool) but they divorced after three years, as now seems to be the case again. So what has gone wrong? During the interview she calls Dauriac her ‘hubby’ and chats – apparently happily – about the popcorn shop they own in Paris, as if their working relationship, at least, is still alive. But with hindsight there is one massive clue to the state of her mind and her heart, when she talks about her twin brother Hunter, who lives close by in Manhattan. ‘I’ve realised in the past couple of years that I have never actually been alone. I have always been with somebody. And in those first moments of life, even just the spark of it, having somebody else there must affect one, right?’ She means from before birth, in the womb. ‘Because of that, I’m learning now how to be alone just with myself. But it’s challenging. It doesn’t mean that I don’t feel alone at times or lonely, but I’m realising that I’ve always had this other half out there.’ The clue comes when I ask whether her closeness to her twin has had an impact on her love life. ‘It affects all your life, like in my intimate relationships, or how I’ve chosen people to be with.’ And this is where she seems to be talking about Dauriac, Reynolds and other lovers. ‘I mean, I’ve chosen people as a result of not wanting to feel alone – or trying to fill some kind of space, or deal with the way I feel when I am in a crowd or suddenly on my own.’ In person, Johansson comes across as quietly confident in herself. She’s dressed simply in black jeans and a black leotard top, her hair cut into a boyish flick. She’s wearing thick black glasses and looks like a hip architect, like her Danish father. The only showy thing about her is a pair of Doc Marten-style boots artfully spattered with multi-coloured paint Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-4317346/Scarlett-Johansson-marriage-men-Donald-Trump.html