Two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson was only nine when she scored her &#8216;first real paying acting job&#8217; on a sketch on Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien.
The 36-year-old former child star made her small-screen debut as spelling bee champion Sarah Hughes in a segment taped for the March 15, 1994 episode.
In it, Sarah is lauded despite misspelling every word she attempts including lugubrious, sesquicentennial, and apology.
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Cute! Two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson was only nine when she scored her &#8216;first real paying acting job&#8217; on a sketch on Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien
This exasperates Conan&#8217;s loyal sidekick Andy Richter, who receives hisses and boos from the studio audience clearly in on the joke.
&#8216;Hey Sarah, I know what will cheer you up. How would you like to be my sidekick for the rest of the show. Would you like that?&#8217; the 58-year-old talk show host asked.
After the fourth grader gushed she&#8217;d &#8216;love&#8217; to be his sidekick, O&#8217;Brien smiled: &#8216;You&#8217;re terrific.&#8217;
Scarlett appeared on Conan&#8217;s talk shows four more times, including in 2003 when she reminisced about her &#8217;embarrassing piece of acting.&#8217;
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Throwback! The 36-year-old former child star made her small-screen debut as spelling bee champion Sarah Hughes in a segment taped for the March 15, 1994 episode
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Oops! In it, Sarah is lauded despite misspelling every word she attempts including lugubrious, sesquicentennial, and apology
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&#8216;I hate to seem like a jerk&#8217;: This exasperates Conan&#8217;s loyal sidekick Andy Richter (L), who receives hisses and boos from the studio audience clearly in on the joke
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The 58-year-old talk show host (R) asked: &#8216;Hey Sarah, I know what will cheer you up. How would you like to be my sidekick for the rest of the show. Would you like that?&#8217;
&#8216;I remember this big redheaded man,&#8217; Johansson recalled.
&#8216;And I remember Andy, after the show, he was just thrilled that I was his biggest fan at the time. He gave me his signed picture and I still have it.&#8217;
The native New Yorker&#8217;s first professional acting gig was, age eight, in Playwrights Horizons&#8217; stage production of Sophistry at the Studio Theater in 1993.
Nicholas Martin&#8217;s off-Broadway play also starred Ethan Hawke, Calista Flockhart, Anthony Rapp, and Steve Zahn.
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After the fourth grader gushed she&#8217;d &#8216;love&#8217; to be his sidekick, O&#8217;Brien smiled: &#8216;You&#8217;re terrific&#8217;
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&#8216;I remember this big redheaded man&#8217;: Scarlett appeared on Conan&#8217;s talk shows four more times, including in 2003 when she reminisced about her &#8217;embarrassing piece of acting&#8217;
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Johansson recalled: &#8216;And I remember Andy, after the show, he was just thrilled that I was his biggest fan at the time. He gave me his signed picture and I still have it&#8217;
Scarlett then scored roles in North, Manny &amp; Lo, The Horse Whisperer, and Ghost World before landing her breakout role in Sofia Coppola&#8217;s Lost in Translation in 2003.
Johansson went on to win many trophies including a Tony Award, Independent Spirit Award, honorary César Award, and MTV Generation Award.
On June 29, the 5ft3in bombshell celebrates the 39th birthday of her husband of eight months &#8211; SNL head writer Colin Jost &#8211; whose memoir A Very Punchable Face drops on July 14.
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Hard work and good luck: The native New Yorker then scored roles in North, Manny &amp; Lo, The Horse Whisperer, and Ghost World before landing her breakout role in Sofia Coppola&#8217;s Lost in Translation in 2003 (pictured with Bill Murray)
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Esteemed: Scarlett went on to win many trophies including a Tony Award, Independent Spirit Award, honorary César Award, and MTV Generation Award (pictured May 16)
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Newlyweds: On June 29, Johansson celebrates the 39th birthday of her husband of eight months &#8211; SNL head writer Colin Jost (R) &#8211; whose memoir A Very Punchable Face drops July 14
Scarlett next reprises her role as former KGB assassin Natasha Romanoff in Cate Shortland&#8217;s $200M-budget prequel Black Widow, which hits UK theaters July 7 and US theaters July 9.
It&#8217;s Johansson&#8217;s eighth time portraying Black Widow, but her first solo film in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Black Widow also features Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, William Hurt, and Ray Winstone.
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Her first solo MCU film: The 5ft3in bombshell next reprises her role as former KGB assassin Natasha Romanoff in Cate Shortland&#8217;s $200M-budget prequel Black Widow, which hits UK theaters July 7 and US theaters July 9

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