She might be riding high at the global box office with Jurassic World Rebirth ($769,503,245 and counting) and he might be looking for a new agent after Megalopolis, but 2019’s Marriage Story is back in the headlines not because of their Oscar nominations, but because the audio of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver (in character) screaming at each other as their marrige disintegrates has been used by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to scare wolves off to stop them killing cattle in a process known as Wolf hazing.
A new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals that audio of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver screaming at each other in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” is being used by the United States Department of Agriculture to scare off wolves from killing cattle and scaring livestock on farms across the America. The fight scene is the most emotionally volatile moment in Baumbach’s 2019 drama, which earned both Johansson and Driver Oscar nominations.
“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,” a USDA district supervisor in Oregon told the publication.
“Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, in spectacular performances that work together with searing intimacy, enact the anger, pride, despair, and passion of a couple who tear their relationship apart, and their souls too, even as they both struggle to remain whole inside,” Gleiberman wrote. “‘Marriage Story’ tells the story of divorce in our time, and in doing so it earns a place next to those harrowing and heartrending texts of separation, ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ and ‘Scenes from a Marriage.’”
