Circa 1994, a nine-year-old Scarlett Johansson was grinding through New York auditions, armed with a raspy voice that stopped casting rooms cold. Too different, too mature, too strange—she heard it all. Rejection after rejection followed, but she refused to smooth out what made her unique. Her parents drove her across Manhattan as she walked into rooms full of doubt and walked out with her chin high. Then came 1998. The Horse Whisperer. That same voice critics questioned became her signature. By