If you first saw ultra-hot actress Scarlett Johansson as a 13-year-old kid in The Horse Whisperer or maybe caught her as a teen in the horror spider-fest Eight Legged Freaks, or as a misfit in Ghost World, you need to get up to speed on this very talented 20-year-old. Not only did she impress tinsel-town with her performance in Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation and in Girl with a Pearl Earring, Scarlett played a student hoping to beat the SAT's in The Perfect Score and Topher Grace's love interest in In Good Company. Now, she's taken on her first actionbabe role opposite Ewan McGregor in the Michael Bay sci fi adventure The Island.

Scarlett Johansson Credit: Dreamworks Pictures

The busy young actress evidently rarely sleeps. She's shot a Woody Allen comedy called Match Point and will turn super dramatic again in the murder thriller The Black Dahlia opposite Josh Hartnett and will work with Woody again on yet another film. We got to sit down with the star in New York recently and got her take on tough action and cloning themes in The Island, working with Ewan, on set injuries and what drives her so hard.