Scarlett Johansson does not have a crush on presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Johansson, a vocal supporter of Obama, told the website Politico.com in June that she and the Democratic presidential hopeful had been trading e-mails.
Following her confession, she found herself defending reports there was something more going on with Obama.
“It seemed to me to be like a product of extreme sexism, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney or any of the other (Obama) surrogates or supporters ... there wouldn’t be (any) question about it. Nobody would even talk about it,” she said Tuesday at a press conference while promoting her new woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Making the situation even more embarrassing, Obama later told reporters that Johansson doesn’t have his personal email address, and that his assistant forwarded one message from Johansson to which he replied.
The 23-year-old actress added at the conference, “I was merely trying to express my delight at Obama’s commitment to his campaign in every aspect and his interest and his support (in) his surrogates and his staff and his fellows, and how wonderful and refreshing that is. And it was manipulated into such an unfortunate media frenzy of kind of a nonstory.”
Johansson will star in the upcoming Woody Allen film, which features her much-hyped kiss with Penelope Cruz.
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