I have been hypersexualised from a young age – Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson thinks she’s been objectified during her career. The 37-year-old actress, who shot to stardom as a child actor, feels she’s been “hypersexualised” from a young age. Johansson told the Armchair Expert” podcast: “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.

I remember thinking to myself: ‘I think people think I’m 40 years old.’ It somehow stopped being something that was desirable and something that I was fighting against. Johansson remembers feeling “pigeonholed” after starring alongside Bill Murray in the Sofia Coppola-directed “Lost in Translation

The Hollywood star, who was a teenager when she filmed the movie, said: “I think everybody thought I was older and that I’d been (acting) for a long time, I got kind of pigeonholed into this weird hypersexualised thing. I felt like (my career) was over. It was like: ‘That’s the kind of career you have, these are the roles you’ve played.’ And I was like: ‘This is it?’”

Johansson played a character five years her senior in “Lost in Translation”, and the actress can recall fearing for her career after the film’s release.

She shared: “The runway is not long on that. So, it was scary at that time. In a weird way, I was like: ‘Is this it?’ I attributed a lot of that to the fact that people thought I was much, much older than I was.

By contrast, Johansson thinks the landscape is dramatically different for young actresses these days. She said: “I see younger actors that are in their twenties. It feels like they’re allowed to be all these different things.

Source: Fakazanews

In other news – Qwabe Twins announce their first Live concert

Qwabe Twins announces their first Live concert. The two singers who had their major breakthrough into the SA music industry two years ago are set to host their first live concert in November, Durban.

Taking to social media on Tuesday, they shared the flier of the show and details on getting tickets. Learn more