Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
Scarlett Johansson has criticized the s-xualization and pigeonholing she suffered from the Hollywood industry when she was little more than a teenager. The actress has affirmed that for a time she saw her career stagnate in a type of role based on her physical attractiveness, a mere "object of desire", a stereotype that she found it hard to get rid of.
Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
The 38-year-old interpreter briefly reviewed her past in an interview with the Table for Two podcast. The presenter was full of praise for Scarlett Johansson for being able to turn around the image that was had of her thanks to action movies and dramatic roles.
Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
"I did Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring and at the time I was 18 or 19 years old and coming into my own womanhood and learning my own attractiveness and s-xuality," Johansson begins. "I think because of that trajectory that they put me on, I got stuck," she says.
Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
"I was being prepared, in a way, to be what is known as an explosive actress. I was playing to be another woman, an object of desire, and suddenly I found myself cornered in that place as if I could not get out of there", criticizes the actress.
Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
After the two aforementioned films, Johansson released films such as Match Point or The Black Dahlia, among others, in the following years. In them, seduction games were one of the key characteristics of the characters she played. A clear drift towards the typecasting and s-xualization of which she, she assures her, it was very difficult for her to escape from.
Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
Johansson openly noted that the industry tends to objectify young actresses as they make the leap into adulthood, pigeonholing them into a certain trajectory. In fact, the interpreter herself denounced just a few months ago the enormous s-xualization of her Black Widow character when she debuted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Scarlett Johansson denounces that Hollywood made her a s-xual icon when she was a teenager: "I felt cornered"
"They treated her like a piece of meat," he said of Natasha Romanoff, a character who since her appearance in Iron Man 2 evolved remarkably until she had her own solo film, which was released in October 2021. In her case, the Change came with action roles like Lucy or Under the Skin and also with tapes like the drama Marriage Story and the satire on Nazism Jojo Rabbit, for which he received two Oscar nominations in 2020.
