BLACK WIDOW'S Scarlett Johansson Says She Was 'Kind Of GROOMED' Into Being a 'Bombshell" Actress!

Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson reveals how being "groomed" as a "bombshell-type actress" affected the early stages of her career in the industry.Show more

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Scarlett Johansson Says She Was 'Kind of Groomed' Into Being a 'Bombshell-Type Actor'
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Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson has opened up about how she was "kind of groomed" into being a "bombshell-type actor" in the early stages of her career.

During a recent appearance on the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, Johansson discussed that she found herself repeatedly playing overly sexualized roles when she was starting off her career. "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 explained. "I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type actor. I was playing the other woman and the object of desire and I suddenly found myself cornered in this place. I couldn't get out of it."

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The Oscar nominee shared that she was concerned about the limited opportunities as an actor after being typecast. "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," she said. In fact, the actor highlighted how her character of Black Widow in Iron Man 2 was initially "underdeveloped and over-sexualized". She overcame this by working closely with director Jon Favreau and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige to make the character more progressive.

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Despite the entire situation being a "weird conundrum to be in" Johansson continued to work hard to carve a place for herself in the industry and work in a variety of projects in an attempt to move away from her "bombshell" roles.

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Earlier this year, Johansson shed light on how being hypersexualized affected her career in Hollywood. On an episode of Dax Shepard's podcast, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the actor discussed her early days in the industry. "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 said. However, she does think that things have changed over the years and that Hollywood has begun to take women more seriously. "Now, I see younger actors that are in their 20s. It feels like they're allowed to be all these different things," she explained.

After starring in several prominent films in the past decade, Johansson has become one of the most popular actors in the industry. In 2019, she earned the title of the highest-paid actress in Hollywood for the second year in a row, earning $56 million for her roles in Black Widow and Avengers: Endgame. The actor is soon set to star in the Apple TV+ movie Project Artemis, opposite Chris Evans.