Scarlett Johansson discusses working with Woody Allen and says she was 'groomed' to be 'a bombshell'

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Two months after claiming she was 'pigeonholed' as 'hypersexualized' early in her career, two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson now says she was 'groomed' in as a teenager to become a Hollywood 'bombshell.''I think it was because of that trajectory I had been sort of launched towards - I really got stuck,' the 38-year-old former child star said in the new podcast Table for Two on Tuesday.'I was kind of being groomed, in a way, to be this what you call a bombshell-type of actor.' Choices: Two months after claiming she was 'pigeonholed' as 'hypersexualized' early in her career, two-time Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson now says she was 'groomed' in as a teenager to become a Hollywood 'bombshell' (pictured November 2)Scarlett was only 19 in 2004 when she began her role as the older, more sophisticated, and sexy Nola Rice in blacklisted director Woody Allen's psychological thriller Match Point.In his 2020 memoir Apropos of Nothing, the 87-year-old filmmaker wrote that Johansson was 'not only was she gifted and beautiful, but sexually she was radioactive.'The native New Yorker's character is murdered with a shotgun by her lover (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) after confessing she became pregnant during their torrid affair in the morally-bankrupt movie.Scarlett said '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 38-year-old former child star said in the new podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi (L) on Tuesday: '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' How it began: Scarlett was only 19 in 2004 when she.