Scarlett Johansson opened up about feeling “hypersexualized” when she was a teenage actress, and the way that left her fearing she’d be typecast in these kind of roles.
Johansson appeared within the five hundredth episode of actor Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Skilled” podcast on Monday, the place she obtained candid about her early experiences as an actor.
“You bought labelled ’15 occurring 30′ early and I can think about that being this actually wild blessing after which this actually bizarre curse not directly,” Shepard advised Johannson, through Folks, confessing he was stunned to find out how younger she was in a few of her early display roles.
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Revealing that she started filming her first film at age seven, she famous how outdated she was when she shot a few of her best-known early motion pictures, reminiscent of “Ghost World” (she was simply 15) and “Misplaced in Translation” (17).
“Do you suppose at occasions individuals overestimated how outdated you had been and assumed you would possibly perceive greater than you knew and the way a lot had been you making an attempt to ship on that?” requested Shepard.
Rising up in New York being surrounded by loads of adults as a toddler, she defined, was an enormous assist. Nonetheless, she added, she “undoubtedly was in numerous conditions that weren’t age-appropriate” at occasions.
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“Fortunately my mother was actually good about defending me from a variety of that stuff, however she will’t do this for every part,” she mentioned.
“As a result of I feel everyone thought I used to be older and I’d been [acting] for a very long time after which I obtained form of pigeonholed into this bizarre hypersexualized factor,” she mentioned.
“It was like, that’s the form of profession you’ve got. These are the roles you’ve performed and I used to be like, ‘That is it I assume,’” Johansson, 37, added.
“The runway just isn’t lengthy on that and so it was scary at the moment,” she recalled. “And I attributed a variety of that to the truth that individuals thought I used to be a lot, a lot older than I used to be.”
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Fortunately, Johansson has seen that attitudes towards youthful actors have undoubtedly modified since she was a teen.
“Now it’s like, I see youthful actors which can be of their 20s, it looks like they’re allowed to be all these various things,” she mentioned. “We’re not even allowed to essentially pigeonhole actors anymore.”