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Scarlett Johansson feels she was “groomed” to become a “bombshell-type of actor” during her younger years.
The 38-year-old actress feared becoming pigeonholed, and is now thankful that she managed to take control of her own career.
“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,” she told the ‘Table for Two’ podcast.
“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 thinks she “got stuck” on a very specific trajectory during her younger years.
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“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.”
Earlier this year, Johansson claimed that she had been “objectified” during her career.
The actress also argued that she’s been “hyper-sexualized” from a young age.
“I kind of became objectified and pigeonholed in this way where I felt like I wasn’t getting offers for work for things that I wanted to do,” she explained.
“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.”
Johansson played a character five years her senior in Lost in Translation, and the actress recalled fearing for her career after the film’s release.
“The runway is not long on that,” she shared. “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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