{"id":376390,"date":"2026-04-12T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:43:08","slug":"scarlett-johansson-recalls-being-pigeon-holed-because-of-her-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376390\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson Recalls Being “Pigeon-Holed” Because Of Her Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter more than 30 years of acting onscreen, Scarlett Johansson<\/a> recently opened up about being pigeon-holed early in her career.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile she sees roles improving for women in recent years, the 2x Oscar nominee detailed how Hollywood \u201cpulled apart\u201d women over their looks in the early aughts, which she said was \u201csocially acceptable at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was such another time too,\u201d she explained on CBS Sunday Morning<\/a>. \u201cI think growing up in the industry, and then being a woman, a 20-something-year-old woman in the early 2000s, in the spotlight in general, it was just a really harsh time. Women were just pulled apart for how they looked in a way that was socially acceptable at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson continued, \u201cIt was tough. There was a lot placed on how women looked. What was offered at that time for women my age, as far as acting roles or opportunities, was much slimmer than it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Jurassic World Rebirth actress noted there are \u201cmuch more empowering roles\u201d now, compared to the \u201cslim pickins\u201d for young women in the \u201990s and aughts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou would get really pigeon-holed and offered the same [roles],\u201d added Johansson. \u201cIt would be like the other woman, or the side piece, the bombshell. That was the archetype that was prevalent when I was that age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing her feature directorial debut with last year\u2019s Eleanor the Great, Johansson can next be seen reuniting with Adam Driver in James Gray\u2019s Paper Tiger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than 30 years of acting onscreen, Scarlett Johansson recently opened up about being pigeon-holed early in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69,12656,196287],"class_list":{"0":"post-376390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-scarlett-johansson","14":"tag-typecast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}