Did Scarlett Johansson Use A Body Double In Under The Skin?

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Under the Skin (2013) Poster

The men lured into the van by Scarlett Johansson's graphic symbol were not actors. Jonathan Glazer had hidden cameras installed in the van and simply informed the men after that they were in a film.

Adam Pearson, who plays the disfigured man who is lured into the vehicle, broke his leg when he was struck by a cab on his way to audition for his role. Manager Jonathan Glazer auditioned him the side by side mean solar day at the hospital and gave him the job.

The pic took nearly x years to be made, and 1 of the early drafts of the scripts included a Scottish married couple who were revealed to exist aliens in disguise. Brad Pitt was, at the time, cast as ane half of the couple.

A paparazzi still of Scarlett Johansson, in character, falling downwardly became a wildly popular Internet meme in which users would photoshop Johansson into various situations. As the scene was shot with subconscious cameras, information technology was not until the picture show's release that information technology was revealed the autumn was intentional.

Championship motorcycle road racer Jeremy McWilliams was bandage every bit the motorcyclist to handle the treacherous driving weather condition of the Scottish Highlands.

Scarlett Johansson talked virtually her deciding to get nude for the picture show during a press conference. "I call back in some ways you accept to look at the nudity and sort of assume that it's going to be a screenshot for someone, and you lot kind of take to weigh the value of the risk that you're taking. You know, 'Is this gratuitous? Is this a vanity projection? Is this an important part of this character's journey to self-discovery? What'south the gain?" She ultimately decided it was right for the grapheme and worth the risk. She then added, "I'm not a provocative person. It'due south not like I live to be photographed in the buff or anything like that." And non beingness provocative led to some apprehension when being asked to strip totally naked. "Information technology actually made me enlightened of when I was doing it, all the kinds of judgments and all of these things we place on ourselves. How self-witting y'all can be about the way you look, your ain vanity. It was really challenging only it was interesting like, 'I really am self-conscious about this or I'one thousand belongings on to this idea I should wait like that.' We all have it. I gauge equally a woman, we have it more than, I don't know."

Jonathan Glazer did not want to use make-upwardly for the homo with neurofibromatosis. Adam Pearson was cast later the production team contacted Changing Faces, a charity supporting people with facial disfigurement. His ideas about how Scarlett Johansson's character could seduce his graphic symbol were added to the script.

Close to the terminate, one of the motorbike riders overlooks a valley shrouded in fog. The limerick of the paradigm and the pose of the rider mimics Caspar David Friedrichs' 1818 oil painting "Wanderer In a higher place the Sea of Fog."

The first proper line of dialogue happens xiii minutes into the film.

Adam Pearson and Scarlett Johansson had a competition to run into who could tell the most inappropriate joke. Pearson won but says that Johansson put upwards an excellent fight.

1 of the locations where this movie was shot was in the Robert Street surface area of Port Glasgow (where the second victim is lured). Filming had to be delayed for a number of days equally there was a real-life murder in the next street prior to filming and the law had cordoned the area off.

The scene where Scarlett Johansson enters the stone hut for shelter was filmed on the eastern shores of Loch Lomond over two days. The cast and crew had to exist taken by boat from Tarbet to the prepare, as there is no route admission. The simply access is a footpath known as the Westward Highland Way.

The nightclub that Scarlett Johansson gets pulled into is Order Earth in Livingston, Westward Lothian. Although the exterior shots and many of the interior shots are of the bodily club, her escape road and scene in the toilet corridor seem to have been filmed elsewhere.

The bike scenes in fog in the Highlands were filmed at Drymsynie Holiday Park in Argyll, Scotland.

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Novelist and screenwriter Alexander Stuart ("The War Zone") wrote the first 3 drafts of the script.

In August 2014, Mr. Skin placed Scarlett Johansson's nude scenes from the flick at #one on their list of "The Top 150 Greatest Glory Nude Scenes of All Fourth dimension."

Made with the back up of the BFI Film Fund.

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The trivia items beneath may requite away important plot points.

I hypothesis suggests 'The Female' is actually a Selkie, instead of an conflicting. Selkies are mythological creatures establish in Scottish, Irish gaelic and Icelandic folklore. They are said to alive as seals in the ocean merely shed their skin to become human on state. Selkies are described every bit beingness very beautiful in their human form and therefore having great seductive powers.

Adam Pearson (The disfigured man) was interviewed on the Australian morning talk show "Studio ten" near the film and had stated the scene where he runs naked through a field in Scotland was filmed at three:00 am and that information technology was extremely cold.

The Female (Scarlett Johansson), fifty-fifty in her true alien class, spends 40% of the film in her underwear and nude.