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Jami Ganz

Scarlett Johansson says she was ‘groomed’ for ‘sexuality’-heavy roles: ‘I couldn’t get out of it’

Scarlett Johansson has a complicated relationship with her history of taking on roles that highlight her “desirability and sexuality.”

“I did ‘Lost in Translation’ and ‘Girl With the 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,” the New York-born “Black Widow” star said on Tuesday’s episode of the “Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi” podcast.

Looking back, the 38-year-old actress said she “was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type actor,” whether she liked it or not.

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