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After much than 30 years of acting onscreen, Scarlett Johansson precocious opened up astir being pigeon-holed early successful her career.
While she sees roles improving for women successful caller years, nan 2x Oscar nominee elaborate really Hollywood “pulled apart” women complete their looks successful nan early aughts, which she said was “socially acceptable astatine nan time.”
“It was specified different clip too,” she explained connected CBS Sunday Morning. “I deliberation increasing up successful nan industry, and past being a woman, a 20-something-year-old female successful nan early 2000s, successful nan spotlight successful general, it was conscionable a really harsh time. Women were conscionable pulled isolated for really they looked successful a measurement that was socially acceptable astatine nan time.”
Johansson continued, “It was tough. There was a batch placed connected really women looked. What was offered astatine that clip for women my age, arsenic acold arsenic acting roles aliases opportunities, was overmuch slimmer than it is now.”
The Jurassic World Rebirth character noted location are “much much empowering roles” now, compared to nan “slim pickins” for young women successful nan ’90s and aughts.
“You would get really pigeon-holed and offered nan aforesaid [roles],” added Johansson. “It would beryllium for illustration nan different woman, aliases nan broadside piece, nan bombshell. That was nan archetype that was prevalent erstwhile I was that age.”
Following her characteristic directorial debut pinch past year’s Eleanor nan Great, Johansson tin adjacent beryllium seen reuniting pinch Adam Driver successful James Gray’s Paper Tiger.
