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Scarlett Johanssonis reflecting on how she shifted her career to not get pigeonholed as “a bombshell-type of actor.”
During theBlack Widowstar’s appearance on theTable for Twopodcast on Tuesday, 38-year-old Johansson told host Bruce Bozzi that she felt she had landed in a “weird fever dream” after filming the 2003 moviesLost in TranslationandGirl with a Pearl Earringin her teenage years.
“It sort of was my transition into my adult career,” Johansson said during the podcast, noting she experienced “a really hard time doingLost in Translation.”
“I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards — I really got stuck,” she said.
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“I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor,” Johansson said of her early career. The actress said “playing the other woman and the object of desire” left her feeling “cornered in this place like I couldn’t get out of it.”
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During the interview, Johannson cited Creative Artists Agency partner and co-chairman Bryan Lourd — Bozzi’s spouse — as a person who helped her turn her own career around.
“It would be easy to sit across from someone in that situation and go, ‘This is working, why change it?’ " the actress said of changing the course of her career along with Lourd. “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.”
In October, Johanssonsaid she was “hypersexualized” as a young actressduring an appearance on actorDax Shepard’s podcastArmchair Expert, despite saying that sex was “never a huge part of my actual personality.”
“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,” she added.
“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.'”
source: people.com
