In the filmmaker’s controversial book, Apropos of Nothing, Allen describes first meeting Johansson after casting her in his 2005 film Match Point.
Woody Allen has been criticised for “tone deaf” remarks in his new memoir, including one that describes a 19-year-old Scarlett Johansson as “sexually radioactive”.
Allen also uses the memoir to suggest actor Timothée Chalamet only “denounced” working with him to boost his Oscar chances.
He also jokes that casting Johansson and Penelope Cruz opposite one another in 2008’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona “caused each woman’s erotic valence to cube itself”.