Ghost World was a springboard for the 15-year-old Scarlett Johansson, cast as Enid’s best friend, Rebecca. Which is specific to her, but also universal for someone going through that transitional phase of life.” With the delivery, it was pretty clear-cut – just deadpan your way through it – but underneath that there are all these conflicting emotions. Those are things she never discusses, not even with Rebecca. “Enid is repressing a lot of hurt and anger about a lot of things: growing up without a mum having a listless father figure who doesn’t really know how to deal with an adolescent young woman. “The whole story arc is how, in some sad way, she can’t even keep a best friend,” says Birch. Beneath the film’s barrage of mordant gags, that melancholy undertow can get missed.
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