Scarlett Johansson on Being ‘Pulled Apart’ Over Looks as Young Actress
Scarlett Johansson is getting candid about the challenges working as a young actress in the early 2000s, saying it was “socially acceptable” for women to be “pulled apart for how they looked.” The Oscar-nominated actress, who scored her breakout roles in 2003’s Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring, said during a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning that it was a “really harsh time” during that period. “It was tough. There was a lot placed on how women looked,” Johansson explained. “What was offered at that time for women my age, as far as acting roles or opportunities, was much slimmer than it is now.” More than two decades later, the Jurassic World: Rebirth star is happy to see “much more empowering roles available” for young women now compared to when she was in her 20s, as it was “Slim Pickens” during her early days. “You would get really pigeon-holed and offered the same [roles]. It would be like the other woman, or the side piece, the bombshell,” she recalled. “That was the archetype …
