Scarlett Johansson Hates Being Called ScarJo, Is Bored Of Being An Ingenue
December 19, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Scarlett Johansson spent her whole weekend whining to whomever would listen about how hard her life is, in a series of increasingly-pretentious interviews. Before she bemoaned peasants and public transport, she made a few snide remarks about the use of ScarJo in the press; the portmanteau of her first name and surname, since her full name’s rather long and bothersome to write out/ copy pasta each time.
She told USA Today of the ScarJo moniker, it needs to die unless everyone calls DaDay and CaBla by those nicknames all the time too: “It’s a laziness. People can’t actually say the whole name? It’s just bizarre.” She tries shorthand sobriquets on other stars. How come Daniel Day-Lewis isn’t subjected to “like, ‘DaDay’? So Cate Blanchett is not, like, ‘CaBla’? Why is that? Why do I have to get stuck? If I hear somebody say that, I know I don’t know them at all.”
Oh, GOD. Her life’s so hard. Can you even???
In the same interview, she gets a side-eye/ sit DOWN for the following comments about peasants and being above playing Marilyn Monroe even though her entire D&G campaign is styled that way and she often apes the late actress: “For me, it’s like, I used up all my subway tokens. It’s a privilege to not have to take the subway. I like the subway. It gets you places fast, but I’d rather hail a cab. Or walk…. [So far as playing Marily Monroe on film] there’s a lot there to explore, and I like to watch other people do it, but I have no interest. It’s lovely to be compared to somebody as sort of effervescent and charming and fragile and I think kind of an underrated actor, really… you know, beautiful and everything. But it’s never been one for me.”
And she’s still butthurt at how the tabloids handled her divorce, after only two-years of marriage to Ryan Reynolds: “The hardest part is actually going through whatever hardship you’re facing. Going through it in public is the added unfortunate thing. There’s nothing you can do about that. One of the best things I learned this year was to not read any tabloid, gossipy, you know, garbage. It really keeps you on the straight and narrow. And while some of it kind of leaks in occasionally, it’s really nice to not know what crazy stories [are circulating]. [When random hook-ups are mentioned] I’m like, ‘What? Really? When did that come out?’ It’s just nice to have kind of a blinder up in that regard. It helps keep you sane. I can’t follow all that stuff. It’s too exhausting. Unless it’s something that’s violently awful, I think it’s better to just let it go. You just have to kind of let it slide. Otherwise, you’re, like, in the midst of it, like a frenzy.”
And she’s tired of pretending to be the fresh-faced seductress: “The roles that are really available for young women most of the time are the ingénue, the other woman, the girlfriend of someone, and as I’ve gotten older, it’s nice to be able to move into territory where the characters that I’m playing and looking at are women who are established. It’s nice to be kind of transitioning into that phase of my career.”
In a separate interview with NY Mag, Johansson again bemoaned being a 27-year-old ingenue: “I think that as I get older, I’m now looking at roles that move away from that kind of ingénue mold and are more based on women that are experienced and have had life before the point you find them in. That’s refreshing for me. It’s nice to be able to kind of transition into that. I feel like for me, right now, I don’t wanna take on any roles that aren’t challenging in some way. I never wanna play something I’ve done before. I wanna be able to just have everything be hard in some way. Otherwise, what’s the point?”
PHOTO CREDIT – FLYNET PICTURES
