Johansson, pictured right here on the age of 16 in 2001, says she feels that together with her early movie roles, she was set as much as seem older than she truly was and that was a risk to her profession.
“I form of turned objectified and pigeonholed on this approach the place I felt like I wasn’t getting provides for work for issues that I wished to do,” she advised Dax Shepard in a brand new episode of his podcast Armchair Skilled.
“I bear in mind pondering to myself, ‘I feel folks assume I am 40 years outdated.’ It one way or the other stopped being one thing that was fascinating and one thing that I used to be preventing in opposition to.”
The Avengers star, who’s married to Saturday Evening Reside star and comic Colin Jost and has two kids, was notably solid reverse Invoice Murray in Sofia Coppola’s Misplaced in Translation (2003). On the time she was 17 and performed a personality 5 years her senior.
“As a result of I feel all people thought I used to be older and that I would been [acting] for a very long time, I acquired form of pigeonholed into this bizarre hypersexualised factor. I felt like [my career] was over,” Johansson stated.
“It was like: That is the form of profession you will have, these are the roles you’ve got performed. And I used to be like, ‘That is it?'”
Johansson stated the “runway” for a profession like such is “not lengthy” and “it was scary at the moment.”
“In a bizarre approach, I used to be like, ‘Is that this it?’ I attributed a number of that to the truth that folks thought I used to be a lot, a lot older than I used to be,” she stated.
Johansson, nonetheless, stated she feels the movie panorama has developed for younger ladies and now, women-identifying characters are written with extra nuance as a substitute of being sidelined as lovely counterparts, a change she defined for her was a welcome one.
