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Published: Wednesday, 07 February 2007 11:11:33
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In "The Nanny Diaries," Scarlett Johansson goes from Cosmo cover girl to someone who looks more like she'd read the magazine in a checkout line.

Johansson, 22, plays a woman trying to cover her costs by looking after the little boy of the wealthy and snobbish Manhattanites Mr. and Mrs. X (Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney). It's based on the 2002 best-selling novel.

"We thought about how we would approach Scarlett because she is very glamorous, but she's the one who said, 'I really think I should have brown hair and look like an everyday college girl in this movie,' " says Robert Pulcini, who co-directed with wife Shari Springer Berman.

"It's very much the story of a girl finding her identity," Pulcini says. "She's quite confused about what kind of future she should choose, and she ducks out of her life for a period and deals with other people's problems instead of her own. She's avoiding that final step into adulthood."

The movie, set for release April 20, makes Johansson "a bridge-and-tunnel girl from Jersey," Pulcini says. "Manhattan is kind of a dreamlike place, and she discovers all of it."

Source: Daily Southtown