Scarlett Johansson is thrilled about her private September wedding to Ryan Reynolds.

“It was my mission to have a moment of privacy, to do something for myself,” she says in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “I was happy with the results of that.”

Johansson — who’s currently starring in The Spirit — says she secretly spent all summer planning the nuptials, which were held Sept. 27 in a remote wilderness resort outside Vancouver.

The actress also reveals that she looks up to Drew Barrymore, with whom she filmed He’s Just Not That Into You (out in February).

“[Barrymore and her producing partner, Nancy Juvonen] make movies that they like, that they’re proud of, that people love, that is entertaining,” she says. “I would love to be able to do that someday, have a production company and encourage other directors and writers to follow their vision.”

(Johansson is also considering releasing a second album after her first, Anywhere I Lay My Head, topped the Billboard Heatseekers chart this past spring.)

The 24-year-old says she “looks forward to the opportunity” aging will bring to play more complex roles.

“I feel like the hype that comes with being young in the industry will kind of dissipate and that there are some really good roles in my future,” she says.

“Then again, I say that as an actor who thinks every job is their last job,” she adds.

Johansson says she was born to act.

“I was a real ham when I was a child, one of those jazz-hands kids,” she says. She took voice lessons and began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City at age 7.

Most recently, she’s starred in three Woody Allen movies — and she admits she’d do any job on set just to be around him.

“I would do Woody’s shoeshine,” she says. “I’m lucky to be able to fit into that young-woman category in his mind, so I hope he keeps writing for young women. I think he will.”

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The film stars Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O’Hare, Malin Akerman and hits theaters on June 12th 2009.

Why couldn’t he have been photographed with wife Scarlett Johansson?  That would have been hot!

Ryan Reynolds attending “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Cure Parkinsons”, a benefit held by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York.

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Mission accomplished! Ryan Reynolds completed the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday – and lived to tell about it.

“I’m still standing. I’m very excited about that,” he told reporters after crossing the finish line in 3 hours and 50 minutes, faster than he anticipated. “It was an incredible experience.”

Reynolds says in the last leg of the race, he was motivated to keep going by one special spectator.

“When I saw Michael J. Fox on Fifth Avenue, I gained about 15 pounds in goose bumps,” said Reynolds. “It kind of pushed me through the last six miles or so.”

Reynolds ran for Team Fox in honor of his father, Jim Reynolds, who has suffered from Parkinson’s Disease for the past 15 years.

“[During the race] I thought a lot about my father and Michael and the 500,000 other people afflicted with this awful disease in the United States alone. I ran for those who can’t,” Reynolds told PEOPLE.

Reynolds’s mother Tammy and brother Terry greeted him with hugs at the finish line in Central Park.

On Friday, Reynolds told reporters that his wife Scarlett Johansson would be cheering “on the road somewhere.” On Saturday, Johansson helped campaign for presidential candidate Barack Obama at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University.

Asked how Reynolds plans to celebrate his marathon accomplishment, he joked, “I’ll probably celebrate by eating my own body weight in raw dough.”

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Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynold’s Canadian wedding location wasn’t just to paparazzi-proof their nuptials last weekend, but to allow the couple and their guests to enjoy the great outdoors on Vancouver Island, PEOPLE reports in its latest issue, on sale Friday.

Even the groom, 31, took advantage of the setting – fishing for salmon and halibut while other guests went horseback riding and mountain biking on the grounds of the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, a luxurious outpost of 20 canvas tents that caters to nature lovers.

“Scarlett wanted a ceremony with just family and a few select friends,” says a source close to the 23-year-old bride. Less than 40 people attended the wedding – but those who didn’t make the cut shouldn’t feel left out.

According to a friend, plans are afoot to throw a larger celebration for the couple, who began dating in April 2007 before announcing their engagement in May.

“They make a great couple and they’ll make an even better married couple,” says the source.

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Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds made it official with a quiet wedding this weekend, a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE.

Reynolds’s rep also confirmed that they were married.

This is the first marriage for both. The couple had announced their engagement in May.

Johansson, 23, began dating Reynolds, 31, last year shortly after his split from singer Alanis Morissette, who recently expressed well wishes on her ex’s engagement.

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