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Scarlett Johansson Almost Quit Acting Because Of This · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Derived from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Scarlette Joansen has established
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  Speaker 1: yourself as one of the premier leading ladies of this era,
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  Speaker 1: with an incredible range of roles that spanned from the
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  Speaker 1: Marvel universe to critically acclaimed independent fair But in her twenties,
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  Speaker 1: Scarlett was a major sex symbol and cast in hyper
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  Speaker 1: sexualized roles, and she tells The Hollywood Reporter it almost
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  Speaker 1: led her to stop acting. She says, it was never
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  Speaker 1: part of my own narrative. It was really difficult for
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  Speaker 1: me to try to figure out how to get out
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  Speaker 1: of being an ingenue or the other woman. I had
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  Speaker 1: to shake it up of it because I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to take more roles than had already done and
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  Speaker 1: knew how to do. So I did a plan Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: and it reset my whole way of thinking of my work.
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  Speaker 1: It was terrified, but liberating, because you're in charge of
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  Speaker 1: your own fate on stage. Scarlett's new dramay Jojo Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: in Theater that's direct from Hollywood