Scarlett Johansson is on the hunt for something deeper

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Set us as preferred It’s election day morning and, with voters poised to reshape the country’s political landscape, Scarlett Johansson is still trying to figure out when she’ll have time to vote.Speaking by phone from her home in New York City, the 41-year-old actor laughs as she resigns herself to probably voting at “prime time,” when she expects the lines to be longest.Johansson, who helped assemble her fellow “Avengers” stars for a video supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, is feeling anxious but hopeful.“I feel like we’re living in such a weird dystopian time — there are so many things stressing me out in the zeitgeist,” she says.

“Hopefully there will be a historic turnout and things will positively change.” As it turned out, Democrats won both houses of Congress in a historic midterm landslide.Johansson has plenty on her plate.Fresh off Halloween with her daughter Rose, 12, and son Cosmo, 5, she’s about to start shooting “Scapegoat,” the new film from “Hereditary” director Ari Aster (more on that later).

She’s been working virtually nonstop since February, playing a New York homicide detective in Mike Flanagan’s upcoming “The Exorcist: Martyrs” and taking on a still-secret role opposite Robert Pattinson in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman: Part II.” She and her husband, Colin Jost, who is busy with another season of “Saturday Night Live,” coordinate their schedules to keep their children’s lives as normal as possible.Johansson would love to return to Broadway, where she won a Tony in 2010 for “A View From the Bridge,” but says theater is difficult to reconcile with raising young children.“I consider myself the CEO of our household,” she says, her famously husky voice instantly recognizable even over the phone.

“I’m a hands-on parent.I l...