Yorn: 'Scarlett Johansson is like Bardot'

Pete Yorn has said that he was inspired to work with Scarlett Johansson because she reminded him of Brigitte Bardot.

The musician and songwriter told Billboard that Johansson recorded her parts of the Break Up LP in February 2007, before the release of her debut album last year.

Yorn said: "After I kind of dozed off one afternoon for a few minutes, I just woke up and my heart was racing and I had this thing in my head. 'I have to do a duets album, a guy-girl album'. It just popped into my head.

"I wasn't dreaming about Scarlett Johansson or anything like that. I was really into 'Bonnie & Clyde' at the time, by Serge [Gainsbourg] and Brigitte."

He added: "I thought, 'Brigitte... Scarlett! She's Brigitte!' It was a really manic thought pattern that was going on. Within ten minutes, I was texting Scarlett, 'We have to make a record!'"

The nine-track album, released in September, is made up of eight songs written by Yorn and a cover of 'I Am the Cosmos' by Big Star's Chris Bell.