Scarlett Johansson remembered in an interview with Vanity Fair her career getting pigeonholed by “sex object” roles after the breakout success of Sofia Coppola’s 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” which cast a 17-year-old Johansson opposite Bill Murray.

“After ‘Lost in Translation,’ every role that I was offered for years was ‘the girlfriend,’ ‘the other woman,’ a sex object — I couldn’t get out of the cycle,” Johansson said. “It sort of felt like, ‘Oh, I guess this is my identity now as an actor.’ There wasn’t much I could do with that.”

Johansson added that her representatives at the time did not help her try to avoid these roles, although “they were reacting to the norm. The industry worked like that forever.”

“You come into your sexuality and your desirability as part of your growth, and it’s exciting to blossom into yourself,” she continued. “You’re wearing the clothes you want,...

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