Last week we posted a story about how the Producers for The Island basically blamed the movies failure at the box office on Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. I thought this was a totally unfair attack since you can’t blame people staying away from the movie on the performance the actors gave… since the audiences never saw the performances in the first place. This was clearly a case of poor marketing.
Well… never to be a wall flower, Scarlett Johansson has lashed back at the producers for their stupid comments. The good folks over at M&C gives us this:
The screen beauty was staggered by their recent attack, which included a comment on their website claiming “even lesser television actresses would have more connection to that audience” than Johansson did in The Island.
Johannson rages, “This is a clear-cut example of the producers passing the buck and not taking responsibility for their part in making calculated mistakes throughout the film’s marketing. “(I am) proud of (my) performance and the film.”
And so she should be proud. I thought her and Ewan both did fine jobs… and that the movie was actually pretty good. You can’t blame the film itself if the producers can’t get the people out to see it in the first place.
