The Scarlett Johansson Contradiction Plays Out on the Newsstands
It's a grievance Scarlett Johansson has mused about recently, and she has a point.
With two films out right now ("Captain America: Winter Soldier" and "Under Her Skin"), Johansson has made the press rounds, serving as the subject of four in-depth profiles — in Vanity Fair, Glamour, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal — within the past month.
The profiles tend to have something in common: the requisite mention of Johansson's sex appeal, radiance, or voluptuous body… before her body of work. Clearly, it's something the actress is tired of.
"Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, 'How do you stay sexy?' or 'What's your sexiest quality?' All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man," she says in the May issue of Glamour.
If you think Johansson may be over-exaggerating that there is an outsized emphasis on her looks, just read a few of the articles out there about her right now.
"She looked ravishing, radiant, sublime, good enough to eat," writes Lili Anolik in Vanity Fair. "I realized that I was acting the opposite of cool, that I was acting totally and completely gaga. I realized, too, that Scarlett wasn't just a movie star. She was a movie goddess, the purest strain of movie star."
It's a grievance Scarlett Johansson has mused about recently, and she has a point.
With two films out right now ("Captain America: Winter Soldier" and "Under Her Skin"), Johansson has made the press rounds, serving as the subject of four in-depth profiles — in Vanity Fair, Glamour, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal — within the past month.
The profiles tend to have something in common: the requisite mention of Johansson's sex appeal, radiance, or voluptuous body… before her body of work. Clearly, it's something the actress is tired of.
"Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, 'How do you stay sexy?' or 'What's your sexiest quality?' All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man," she says in the May issue of Glamour.
If you think Johansson may be over-exaggerating that there is an outsized emphasis on her looks, just read a few of the articles out there about her right now.
"She looked ravishing, radiant, sublime, good enough to eat," writes Lili Anolik in Vanity Fair. "I realized that I was acting the opposite of cool, that I was acting totally and completely gaga. I realized, too, that Scarlett wasn't just a movie star. She was a movie goddess, the purest strain of movie star."
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