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szdaily -> Entertainment -> 
Johansson turns down funding from Saudi prince
    2018-10-26  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

ACTRESS Scarlett Johansson has apparently taken a moral stand when it comes to financing for her films.

The actress is set to play the real life photojournalist Lynsey Addario in a new film directed by Ridley Scott.

In a New York Times interview on Facebook, Addario revealed that Johansson vetoed funding for the project offered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

“Scarlett Johansson said ‘absolutely not,’” Addario said. “She said: ‘This guy is perpetuating the war in Yemen. He has women in prison.’” Addario added that Johansson’s denial of funding from Bin Salman came before the recent controversy surrounding the crown prince over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“This was before the killing of Khashoggi,” she explained, “when he became one of the main people who wanted to fund the movie.”

Addario continued on the subject of the crown prince: “I didn’t meet with him personally. But my sense is that he probably was into this huge charm campaign. And the fact that he wanted to show the West that he was into Hollywood, he was into all the great things of the West … Do I want him associated with this movie? Obviously not. And thank God he’s not.”

Bin Salman has recently been implicated in the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who died in the Saudi embassy in Turkey after writing critically about Bin Salman’s rule.

In April, Bin Salman headed to Hollywood to meet with studio heads and stars including Dwayne Johnson. It was a visit that led to protests and last week the CNN reporter Oliver Darcy tweeted a screen grab of an Instagram post from Johnson at the time stating it was a “pleasure” to meet him.

“Such a silly clickbait post, Oliver,” Johnson fired back. “I’m surprised you’d post this. Go back and really read my words. I listened and learned then. As I listen and learn now.”

Addario’s work has focused on global conflicts and particularly the effect they have had on women. During her career, she has been kidnapped twice and sexually assaulted while detained in Libya. The upcoming film, originally set to be directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jennifer Lawrence, is based on Addario’s memoir “It’s What I Do.”

Johansson was recently embroiled in controversy after signing on to play a transgender character in fact-based crime drama “Rub & Tug.”

(SD-Agencies)

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