Scarlett Johansson believes she was “destined” to be a “bombshell-type” actress.
During her earlier years, the 38-year-old actress was afraid of being labelled, and she is now grateful that she took charge of her career.
She said: “I kind of became like an ingenue, sort of, and I just think that’s part of – young girls like that are really objectified, and that’s just a fact.
“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.”
Johansson believes she “got stuck” on a particular path when she was younger.
She told the ‘Table for Two’ podcast: “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.”
Johansson stated earlier this year that she has been “objectified” throughout her career.
The actress also claimed that she was “hyper-sexualized” at an early age.
She said: “I kind of became objectified and pigeon-holed in this way where I felt like I wasn’t getting offers for work for things that I wanted to do.
“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I think people think I’m 40 years old. It somehow stopped being something that was desirable and something that I was fighting against.”
In ‘Lost in Translation,’ Johansson played a girl five years her senior, and she admitted to being concerned about her future after the film’s release.
She said: “The runway is not long on that. So it was scary at that time. In a weird way, I was like, ‘Is this it?’ I attributed a lot of that to the fact that people thought I was much, much older than I was.”
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