Scarlett Johansson is opening up about how roles have modified for ladies since she joined Hollywood.

In a latest interview with The Instances of London, Johansson mentioned that when she first entered the business, the roles she was provided often centered round “desirability,” and the targets and wishes of her male counterparts. Nonetheless, she thinks the Hollywood of right this moment is ushering in “a special time for younger girls.”

“The messaging is totally different — there are a lot of extra function fashions, girls are seen in highly effective positions and the alternatives I’ve needed to play girls who don’t have to only be one factor or one other have elevated,” Johansson mentioned. “However after I was youthful, a variety of the roles I used to be provided, or I went for, had their ambitions or character arcs revolving round their very own desirability, or the male gaze, or a male-centred story. That’s much less frequent, although — one thing has shifted.”

This isn’t the primary time Johansson spoke out about her illustration in Hollywood. Again in 2022, the “Avengers” star mentioned she was so “hypersexualized” by the business at a younger age, that she thought it might be unattainable to department out to several types of roles.

“I type of grew to become objectified and pigeonholed on this approach the place I felt like I wasn’t getting presents for work for issues that I needed to do,” Johansson mentioned. “I bear in mind considering to myself, ‘I feel individuals suppose I’m 40 years outdated.’ It someway stopped being one thing that was fascinating and one thing that I used to be combating towards.”