Scarlett Johansson

Sometimes I think a lot of people live in the past, you know, as a way of coping, I think, with what's with the present in a way or their fear of the future.

And you don't do that at all.

You know, I think probably in my mid-20s, I felt really frustrated, you know, with the kinds of roles that I was being offered.

And it was like my career kind of took this—

Right turn where suddenly I was playing either like the other woman or the girl piece on the side, you know, the girlfriend or a object of desire.

And I mean, and that's OK.

I mean, certainly there's there's.

Those parts are – some of them can be quite interesting and meaty.

I did a film called Match Point that Woody Allen directed, which was a very complex version of that person.

But you kind of want to do other stuff.

And I think, you know, as any actor, you can get – you get sort of sidelined and pigeonholed.

And it's your own – I think your own responsibility to get yourself out of those –

tight spots.

Like, no one's going to do that for you, you know.

And so I had the opportunity to do an Arthur Miller play called View from the Bridge that Greg Mosher was directing with Liev Schreiber and Michael Christopher and Jessica Hecht, who's in Eleanor the Great as well.

And I've always loved Arthur Miller and I had never done theater before, but I felt it was, oh, a chance to try something challenging that I, you know, hadn't seen in a long time.

It was really through that process that I understood, oh, actually, I can sit and I can wait, you know, for the right roles to come in.

that I suddenly felt more confident in my ability as an actor.

And so that's what I did.

You know, I rejected the roles that were familiar to me and started working on things that were actively looking for roles that were things I had never done before.