Scarlett Johansson Says She Was ‘Groomed’ to Play Provocative Roles

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played so many “provocative” roles when she was young is because she was “groomed” to do so. “I kind of became, like, an ingénue,” Johansson told host Bruce Bozzi in an episode released on Tuesday, December 13.  “Young girls like that are really objectified and that’s just a fact, so I think whatever box they’re put into, it sort of sets you on this trajectory for how your life will go.

Now, obviously, women really are able to choose their own path,” she said. said that as she got older, she realized she was being typecast, but there wasn't much she felt she could do. “I think because of that trajectory that I had been sort of launched towards, I really got stuck in this,” she said. “I was kind of being groomed in a way to be what you call this bombshell type of actor.

I was playing the other woman and this object of desire and, you know, I suddenly found myself cornered in this place, I couldn’t get out of it.”Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003).

appeared in her first film in 1994, when she was she was nine, as John Ritter's daughter in North. In her first leading role, she played a pregnant teenager who runs away from home in 1996's Manny & Lo.