Scarlett Johansson, Joaquin Phoenix. Alessandra Tarantino/AP/Shutterstock
An uncomfortable second. Scarlett Johansson recalled her costar Joaquin Phoenix’s response to her “weird” orgasm scene of their 2013 movie Her.
“We tried to get via one take, and he was, like, dropping it. He left the studio. He wanted a break,” Johansson, 37, revealed throughout a Monday, October 10, look on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Knowledgeable” podcast.
The Marriage Story star referred to as the telephone intercourse scene between her and Phoenix, 47, “gross,” including, “You positively don’t need to hear what you sound like having an orgasm. You positively don’t need to hear what you sound like having a faux orgasm — ew.”
The Avengers actress was introduced onto the Spike Jonze film late within the manufacturing course of, after filming had already wrapped.
“I didn’t know whether or not what I dropped at it might work for him as a result of he’d already shot the movie and needed to match no matter it was that we did into what he’d already shot,” she stated throughout a September 2013 dialog with Darren Aronofsky for Interview journal.
She continued: “I noticed a few his takes with Joaquin and did slightly bit of labor there. However what I assumed was going to be 4 days of recording changed into a extremely concerned course of. At occasions, I’d even document with Joaquin, who actually made himself obtainable in a tremendous method.”
Johansson’s position of Samantha, an artificially clever digital assistant, was initially portrayed by Samantha Morton.
“Samantha was with us on set and was wonderful. It was solely in post-production, once we began enhancing, that we realized that what the character/film wanted was totally different from what Samantha and I had created collectively,” Jonze, 52, instructed Vulture in June 2013. “So, we recast.”

Scarlett Johansson, Joaquin Phoenix. Agf/Shutterstock
Phoenix loved working with each voice actresses for various causes. “[With Samantha,] we actually developed our characters collectively in a method, and with Scarlett, I labored along with her simply within the studio, so it’s simply utterly totally different experiences,” he stated throughout a January 2014 look on NPR’s Contemporary Air.
He continued: “You realize, I had such a tremendous time working with Samantha Morton and I really feel so beholden to her for serving to me develop this character. After which I labored with Scarlett, and she or he was unimaginable too, and I discovered one thing new in regards to the relationship and we had new discoveries. It was a rare course of.”
Morton, 45, for her half, instructed Self-importance Truthful in July 2019 that being recast felt as if she had “created a portray after which put it within the attic, and no person’s seen it.”