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 happening 30′ early and I can think about that being this actually wild blessing after which this actually bizarre curse not directly,” Shepard informed Johannson, by way of Individuals, confessing he was stunned to find out how younger she was in a few of her early display screen 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Revealing that she started filming her first film at age seven, she famous how outdated she was when she shot a few of her best-known early films, resembling “Ghost World” (she was simply 15) and “Misplaced in Translation” (17).
“Do you suppose at occasions individuals overestimated how outdated you had been and assumed you may perceive greater than you knew and the way a lot had been you attempting to ship on that?”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. Nevertheless, she added, she “positively 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 plenty of that stuff, however she will be able to’t try this for the whole lot,” she stated.
“As a result of I believe all people thought I used to be older and I’d been [acting] for a very long time after which I obtained type of pigeonholed into this bizarre hypersexualized factor,” she stated.
“It was like, that’s the type 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 shouldn’t be lengthy on that and so it was scary at the moment,” she recalled. “And I attributed plenty 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 observed that attitudes towards youthful actors have positively modified since she was a teen.
“Now it’s like, I see youthful actors which might be of their 20s, it appears like they’re allowed to be all these various things,” she stated. “We’re not even allowed to actually pigeonhole actors anymore.”