Actress Scarlett
Johansson is suing
a French publisher, JC Lattes, for using her name in the bestselling novel ‘The First Thing We Look At’ without her permission.
The 28-year-old actress is unhappy about being featured in the book and is seeking compensation and damages from Lattes for ‘breach and fraudulent use of personal rights’, and is also seeking a ban on ‘future transfer of rights and adaptations of the book’, reported Us magazine.
The book, which was published in France on March 20, reportedly centers around a mechanic who meets a woman asking for help.
The mechanic believes the woman is Johansson, but the character is actually revealed as a woman named Jeanine Foucaprez, who looks nearly identical to the ‘Avengers’ star.
However, the book’s author, Gregoire Delacourt, said he was stunned by the lawsuit. “This corresponds with the fantasies of our times. All these famous people live with us. But I wrote a book of fiction. My character is not Scarlett Johansson, it is (character name) Jeanine Foucaprez! It’s a bit silly to say that if you talk about a person, the courts have to get involved. That’s quite sad,” he said.
Johansson is currently filming her 2014 movie, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’. (PTI)