Scarlett Johansson admits 'being groomed' in early career to become 'bombshell' actress

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Hollywood career, having even been named in the Forbes 100 most influential people list last year.The A-lister has admitted in a recent interview that she was "groomed" into becoming a "bombshell-type" actress, leaving her feeling like she had no escape from such a fate.Scarlett spoke on the Table for Two podcasts on Tuesday, where she touched on her early acting career.The actress used the opportunity to claim that she felt that she was "groomed" as a teenager to become a Hollywood "bombshell".The Black Widow star was only 19 when she was cast as the sophisticated Nola Rice in Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point.Having starred in this and movies like Girl With the Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation, Scarlett said she continuously saw herself playing the object of male desire during a time she was trying to cultivate star power in the industry.She explained: "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."I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type actor."I was playing the other woman and the object of desire and I suddenly found myself cornered in this place.

I couldn’t get out of it."She continued: "It would be easy to sit across from someone in that situation and go, ‘This is working.’ But for that kind of bombshell, you know, that burns bright and quick and then it’s done and you don’t have an opportunity beyond that."It was an interesting, weird conundrum to be in but it really came back to working at it and trying to carve a place in different projects and work in great ensembles."Match Point director Woody Allen said of Scarlett.