In a candid interview, the Hollywood actress spoke out saying ‘I really got stuck’.

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has dropped a bombshell about her early years in acting, saying she was “groomed” by the industry to take on 𝑠e𝑥 symbol roles.

The 38-year-old said making the 2003 films Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring had been uncomfortable experiences, as she was a teenager playing intensely 𝑠e𝑥ualised roles.

“It sort of was my transition into my adult career,” she explained on Bruce Bozzi’s recent Table for Two podcast.

“I kind of became like an ingénue, sort of.

“And I just think that’s part of – young girls like that are really objectified, and that’s just a fact.

“I did Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring and by that point, I was 18, 19, and I was coming into my own womanhood and learning my own desirability and 𝑠e𝑥uality.”

Scarlett Johansson in 2003. Credit: Lawrence Lucier/Getty Images

She said that for a while she felt “stuck” in one place in her career as scripts for “bombshell” roles kept flooding in.

“I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards, I really got stuck,” she said.

“I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor.”

Scarlett Johansson photographed on November 2, 2022. Credit: Monica Schipper/Getty Images for David Yurman

After Woody Allen directed her in three films – Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Scoop – he wrote about her in his 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing.

“Not only was she gifted and beautiful, but 𝑠e𝑥ually she was radioactive,” he wrote of the young actress.

In the early days of her career, Johansson was often likened to Marilyn Monroe – another woman who was constantly typecast in 𝑠e𝑥 symbol roles.

It seemed Johansson was destined to keep playing the blonde bombshell until her agent, Bryan Lourd, helped her to turn things around.

Scarlett Johansson in 2005. Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic

“It would be easy to sit across from someone in that situation and go, ‘This is working, why change it?’,” Johansson said.

“But for that kind of bombshell, you know, that burns bright and quick and then it’s done, and you don’t have opportunity beyond that.”

But as her career progressed, Johansson did manage to branch out into different genres and roles.

Scarlett Johansson attends the premiere of Illumination’s “Sing 2” on December 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

There were blockbusters such as The Avengers and Iron Man 2, period dramas like The Other Boleyn Girl, quirky indie films such as Her, comedies including The Nanny Diaries, and noir thrillers such as The Black Dahlia.

One of Johansson’s most critically lauded roles, as Nicole Barber in 2019’s emotionally wrenching relationship drama Marriage Story, landed her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

The award went to Renee Zellweger for her portrayal of Judy Garland.