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Scarlett Johansson takes on some strange new roles

Scarlett Johansson has always been out of this world. Now, she’s getting farther out.

In her upcoming movie, “Under the Skin,” she plays, “as the audience gradually comes to learn — a form of alien, landed or stranded among us, and acquiring human males not for sex or friendship but for the serial harvesting of their meat,” the New Yorker reports. Sounds like Natasha Henstridge in “Species” (1995).

But wait, there’s more. In the upcoming “Lucy,” Scarlett plays “a drug mule who ingests some of her cargo and develops unusual superpowers.” She not the girl next door, unless you live in a strange neighborhood.