Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson: Hello, everyone. I'm so happy to be here. Arianna Huffington: I'm so happy to have you here. So are you thinking of running for office?

Scarlett Johansson: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I think, I've, like I said, I've always been interested in local politics.

I think that's where you make the most effective changes in your community and you know, I don't know. I would never rule anything out. But I have a very full life right now, and I think that, you know, with a very young daughter and you know, I have a lot that I wanna do still with my career.

You know, I can't imagine that would be a possibility for a long time. Arianna Huffington: But you know, New York Mayor, wouldn't that be great? Local politics. Scarlett Johansson: It'd be great.

I'd like to. I would like to see more affordable housing in New York City, and I'd like to see a greener city. But I also believe that, you know, there are, you know, there are people that are, you know, I have certainly, in the past, have supported Scott Stringer and his mayoral run, and I really believed a lot in his experience and his platform.

So, you know, I think you can affect a lot of change just by supporting a political candidate and perhaps redirecting the spotlight onto somebody, you know, whose, policies you really stand behind, so.

Arianna Huffington: I have an idea that the third feminist movement has to include going beyond giving us the vote or giving us access to every job and the top of every profession, to helping us change the nature of work and of life so that we don't assume that it has to be fueled by stress and burnout and being always on.

And I was thinking about you in Her, when you played Samantha, you know, this AI kind of Siri, and the fascination with technology and our addiction to technology and how much this adds to the stress and burnout of modern life. So I wonder whether both your kind of view of feminism in this era of incredible technological addiction- Hmm. And your own relationship to the, your devices has changed.

For example, let me start with a simple question. Do you sleep with your phone? Scarlett Johansson: My phone is I don't ever put my ringer on to the, probably much to the concern of every person that works with me, but I just can't stand it.

I'm not a very you know, I don't, I'm not, I've no social media presence. I live a, quite an analog life. But I do find that my phone adds a lot of stress to my life.

And it's an unnecessary stress because life is stressful, obviously, and it's complicated and especially, I think, when you're even as a, you know, it's, life is stressful in general, right? As, I find as a working parent, life is.

There's, not a lot of other added stresses that come along with that, where you're constantly feeling like you are, there's just not enough of you know, and you. And then, and then what's left for you even? You know what I mean?