'Groomed to be bombshell-type of actor': Scarlett Johansson reflects on her early acting career days

Johansson said, "I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards — I really got stuck. I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor." She believes "playing the other woman and the object of desire" left her feeling "cornered in this place like I couldn't get out of it." The ‘Under the Skin’ actress took the opportunity to thank Bryan Lourd, Creative Artists Agency partner, co-chairman, and Bozzi’s spouse for helping her get out of that "sticky situation," according to People. She added, "It would be easy to sit across from someone in that situation and go, 'This is working, why change it?' 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."

Earlier in October, Johansson while appearing on another podcast run by actor Dax Shephard ‘Armchair Expert’, emphasized that during her early acting days, she was ‘hypersexualized’. The mother of two, further said, "Because I think everybody thought I was older and I'd been [acting] for a long time and then I got kind of pigeonholed into this weird hypersexualized thing. 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 I guess.'"