Screen siren Scarlett Johansson is eyeing a career switch as soon as she begins to wrinkle - she's preparing to become a director before movie bosses pass her up for another ingenue.
Johansson made her film debut at the age of nine in 1994's North, and already fears she'll be overlooked by the next budding beauty.
She tells America's Harper's Bazaar magazine, "It's hard to be a 24-year-old actor and not be typecast. A lot of roles are either for a sexy person or a Juno-type character.
"That ageism makes the actress fearful for her future, making her consider another path within the industry. There is some weird ageist quality in Hollywood, perhaps that's why I lean more toward directing and development.
"That's probably the direction I'll take; I can't keep up this face forever, you know."
Notwithstanding the fact that she’s only 24 (I’m 36, have yet to publish my first novel or direct anything beyond a shot-on-camcorder-edited-on-home-computer documentary about a local poetry society, but I’m nowhere near giving up hope), can I just add, for the defence, that an actress's best years are NOWHERE NEAR BEHIND HER AT EVEN TWICE THAT AGE.
Exhibit A: Diane Lane in ‘Unfaithful’ – age: 37; sex appeal: through the roof.
Exhibit B: Michelle Pfeiffer in ‘Stardust’ – age: 49; sex appeal: wowsers.
Exhibit C: Celia Imrie in ‘Calendar Girls’ – age: 51; sex appeal: the thinking man’s older woman.
Exhibit D: Helen Mirren in a random tabloid shot on some beach in a bikini – age: 63; sex appeal: timeless!
How moronic, she really should have stopped and thought for a second about all the older actresses who've been cast in amazing roles before she opened her mouth.
ReplyDeleteParticularly when her 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' co-star Penelope Cruz is ten years her senior and not showing any signs of her looks fading or her career slowing down.
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