Scarlett goes cruising in Glasgow

GLASGOW shoppers did a double take yesterday when they spotted Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson cruising around in her now trademark white transit van.

Shooting scenes for her sci-fi alien horror film Under The Skin, the 26-year-old (pictured) and her FilmNation crew did their best to blend in with the city crowds.

Around 11.30am the Lost In Translation star drove cautiously around Glasgow’s George Square – where fellow A-lister, Brad Pitt, shot World War Z in August – before a filming stint in Buchanan Galleries shopping centre.

The shopping centre displayed posters informing shoppers that filming would be taking place.

Based on a novel of the same name by Dutch-born author Michel Faber, the movie’s plot follows Johansson’s character – alien seductress Isserley – as she scours the planet’s male hitchhikers.

Faber, who lives near Inverness, set his novel in Ross-shire in the Highlands, where Johansson’s other-worldly character prowls the A9 road every morning looking for prey.

Yesterday’s scenes followed a shoot in a less than glamorous setting – a petrol station in Wishaw, Lanarkshire – where the crew descended last week.

New Yorker Johansson spent two weeks prior to filming learning how to drive on the left side of the road.

She also underwent special training to equip her to drive a transit van.