A best-selling French novel that Scarlett Johansson tried to get banned has been published in the UK.
French novelist Grégoire Delacourt’s book, La Première Chose Qu’on Regarde or The First Thing You See has been published in English, despite the actress' attempt to block translation.
Mr Delacourt’s story opens with the protagonist Arthur Dreyfuss being visited by Scarlett Johansson who says she wants to hang out with him (in, apparently, Ms Johansson’s particular husky voice).
Although the novel goes on to reveal that the lady is not Johansson but merely a lookalike, the real Ms Johansson sued Mr Delacourt last year, claiming that the novel constituted a “violation and fraudulent and illegal exploitation of her name, her reputation and her image”, as well as “defamatory claims about her private life”.
