Scarlett Johansson sticks out for her amazing looks no matter where she is, but that hasn’t made it easy adapting to life in Los Angeles. She arrived with thoughts and dreams that Hollywood would be like it was in the golden era of film.

“I’m trying to make some sort of life there — always with one foot in New York,” she says. “I had a very hard time adapting. When I first got there, I was 19, I couldn’t drive, so I didn’t have a way of making friends. One of my best friends from high school from New Jersey came out. I got a driver’s license, and we starting going places like the L.A. Zoo.”

She expects she will adapt over time, although it’s far from what she had imagined from reading “lots of Hollywood biographies on how Hollywood once was” in the 1930s through the early 1960s.

“It’s not like that now, where you go down the street and meet Shelley Winters for dinner. A lot of times I feel like I was born in the wrong era.

“It was a very glamorous time. It was a really exciting time to be alive. You had Elizabeth Taylor, Dylan Thomas, artists, Lee Strasberg, studio heads — creative people. They worked in a different way then. Actors really homed in on their craft, bonding and living an artist’s life. I wish I could have experienced that.”

ScarJo does seem a bit different than most in Hollywoodland.  Time will tell if she will be forever mentioned with the greats that came long before her.