'Groomed to be bombshell-type of actor': Scarlett Johansson reflects on her early acting career days
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Scarlett Johansson got candid about her early career and the roles she used to play on the podcast ‘Table for Two’, hosted by Bruce Bozzi. The ‘Marriage Story’ actress revealed she was molded to play "a bombshell-type of actor", and how she worked her way out of it. The ‘Black Widow’ actress described her feeling while working in movies like ‘Lost in Translation’, and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in her teens.
"It sort of was my transition into my adult career," reflected Johansson during the show. The 38-year-old added she had a hard time working on 'Lost in Translation.’ "I kind of became like an ingénue, sort of, and I just think that's part of — young girls like that are really objectified, and that's just a fact." The ‘Lucy’ star continued, "I did Lost in Translation and Girl With the Pearl Earring and by that point, I was 18, 19, and I was coming into my own womanhood and learning my own desirability and sexuality."
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Johansson said, "I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards — I really got stuck. I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor." She believes "playing the other woman and the object of desire" left her feeling "cornered in this place like I couldn't get out of it." The ‘Under the Skin’ actress took the opportunity to thank Bryan Lourd, Creative Artists Agency partner, co-chairman, and Bozzi’s spouse for helping her get out of that "sticky situation," according to People. She added, "It would be easy to sit across from someone in that situation and go, 'This is working, why change it?' But for that kind of bombshell, you know, that burns bright and quick, and then it's done and you don't have opportunity beyond that."
Earlier in October, Johansson while appearing on another podcast run by actor Dax Shephard ‘Armchair Expert’, emphasized that during her early acting days, she was ‘hypersexualized’. The mother of two, further said, "Because I think everybody thought I was older and I'd been [acting] for a long time and then I got kind of pigeonholed into this weird hypersexualized thing. It was like, that's the kind of career you have. These are the roles you've played and I was like, 'This is it I guess.'"