Scarlett Johansson Explains What Makes Her Marriage Work

— -- Scarlett Johansson has learned a lot about marriage, especially after the actress married her second husband, Romain Dauriac.

Marriage "takes a lot of work. It takes a man who's not only confident in the love that you have for one another, but confident in what he has going on in his own career," she told Parade magazine. "He has to be in a field that's completely different from yours. My husband's also involved in art. What's important to him is the recognition that he gets from his job, and that has nothing to do with my job."

Johansson, 30, married Dauriac last year, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Rose. One thing that makes her relationship with her husband work, she said, was that the two have many things they like to do together.

"We like to go out and go dancing. Other times, we like to sit at home and eat Thai food and watch House Hunters International for four hours," she said. "And we're interested in each other's worlds. He's interested in my weird, alien entertainment world. It fascinates him because it's so different than what he knows. And I like to go to art openings with him and talk about art and emerging artists with him. That's his passion."

The "Avengers: Age of Ultron" star said keeping a normal life for her child is her top priority.

"It's hard," the actress admitted. "On the one hand, you don't want to isolate your kids, but you don't want to make your kids feel like freaks. There's this fascination with famous kids, like they're celebrity spawn."

"I have many luxuries of fame," Johansson conceded, but said she still does "the normal, everyday things that I've always enjoyed."

"It doesn't mean that when I drive out of my garage, I don't fear that I'm being followed by somebody, because I probably am. But there's always going to be an adjustment," she added. "At some point, you have to take your life back and say, 'You know what? If I feel like picking up my dry cleaning and if someone's going to photograph me doing it, so what?' Part of being with your kids is making them feel as safe and normal as you can."

Johansson will reprise her role as Black Widow in "The Avengers: Age of Ultron," which opens in the U.S. on May 1.