Scarlett Johansson Stands Up For Mature Actresses
AUG 13, 2008 AT 08:47 AM
"Women kind of wilt as men achieve as they get older, like wine.
It’s like, ‘Oh she’s past her prime and can’t play a sex symbol’.
"It’s just a preconceived notion about women in general and particularly in this industry. It’s a very, very vain industry.""My hair and make-up artists spend hours upon hours plastering things on me to make me look sexier. I think it’s rare that you feel beautiful."
-- Scarlett Johansson
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she is amazingly boring.. who keeps interviewing her?
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I agree that this is a boring exerpt. A million actresses have voiced the same thing numerous times. She is just repeating someone else's thought.
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And SHE'S the one who told an interviewer a few years back that she definitely believes in plastic surgery, because (and I'll paraphrase here), "what's the fun in getting old and droopy?" Someone like Helen Mirren is about 4345 times sexier than Scarlett -- partly because she looks AMAZING well into her sixties and hasn't had any work done, and also doesn't fall prey to the matronly fashions that you're "supposed" to wear once you hit that age -- but also because of her fiercely-developed intellect, wide theatrical range, and incredibly impressive acting talent. I'm trying to like Scarlett -- I AM -- but she doesn't make it very easy for me.
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I agree with her. Once a woman hits a certain age, nobody wants to see her as a sexy person. Look at Madonna. She's 50 and has a rocking body and enjoys being sexy because she can. Yet, everybody is disgusted by her. Nobody is disgusted by George Clooney or Harrison Ford and they're much older than her. Such a double standard.
People are disgusted by Madonna not because she is old, but because she has turned herself into a walking corpse.
Agreed. There's nothing sexy about the walking dead. I can think of a few more reasons why people are disgusted with Madonna, but I'll let you figure it out. She's not sexy, she's simply slutty and none of us are shocked by her anymore. I for one, am not interested in being shocked by her. She's a good entertainer, but she has NO talent. She can't sing, she can't act......ugh!
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Easy for her to say while she's still in her 20s. I'm sure it's not just the actresses wilting, it's the demand for actresses past a certain age that's the problem. There ISN'T one. There is a mindset that only young women can be attractive, that if a 40 year old woman is hot, it's weird. Sick, sad world we live in.
Yes I saw Helen Mirren in her bikini and she had an amazing body...I was stunned. I'm sorry but I don't find Scarlette sexy, beautiful, or even pretty. She's not ugly, but she's very plain looking even with all that make-up and hair done. I really don't understand why she is famous. She does have beautiful skin and nice rack, but that's about it.
She's mixing her analogies. Wilt like wine? No, wilt like grapes on vine, Scarlett. The other analogy is "age like a fine wine" that I think she was trying to throw in there as well. That quote made my head hurt. She can't even quote an old, tired cliche correctly!
I think the quote was "men age like wine, women age like milk." Sad.
But then, some wines do go bad if they are not carefully maintained, and some sour milks can make amazing cheeses and breads. Just saying.
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LOL! I like your quote better!!
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I do too. It's smart as hell!
i'm pretty sure she means men get better as they get older, like wine...
the analogy was about men, not women
Can't stand her. CANNOT STAND HER. Hated her in the Horse Whisperer, and have ever since. She's a fine one to comment on this when all we see her in are too tight, cleavage bearing ensembles because her body is her only "talent".
Meryl Streep is a well respected actress. Do actresses always have to be sex-symbols?
Ok, first of all Helen Mirren has one-hundred percent had work done, there is NO way in hell that she looks that well preserved at sixty, not to mention the fact that her recent bikini pictures certainly suggest that she had a tummy tuck. There is no way that she didn't have facial work either. I mean, Diane Lane and Goldie Hawn certainly aren't getting any younger, but I find them to be thirty times more sexy than Ms. Johansson
Quite honestly, Scarlett's quote doesn't even make sense, she is trying to sound eloquent, but she ends up sounding like an uneducated moron on an ego trip. The girl needs to be muzzled. And, in addition, as the older men of hollywood age, I tend to notice one trend- they get veneers, hair plugs and gain weight, since when is that comparable that aging naturally like a fine wine?
“One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.” -Scarlett Johanssen
'I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.”
-Scarlett Johanssen
Tune in next time for Scarlett views on nuclear fusion.
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She just knows everything about women's issues.
If any of you had ANY grammar or punctution skills, you'd recognize that the comma after "men" means that MEN "achieve as they get older [just like] wine". Dummies. While she doesn't use decent verbs (age better, like wine, and women "wilt"? Perhaps are viewed as "wilted" since gravity is more unkind to the chick half of the world?), which shows a shallow education, she is correct. Women must be SUPER famous and have tons of plastic surgery in order to be considered sexy after her 30s, especially in the industry.
And OF COURSE Mirren had surgery. I would, too, if I had the cash! Good for her.
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There IS no comma after the word "men" in Scarlett's quote. Good thing, too, because that comma placement would have been woefully incorrect. And it's nice for you to go ahead and delineate Scarlett's syntax for us and all, but I think that most of us are pretty literate people. We understand the quote. It's not as if we had to translate it from its original Slavic language or something. I'm highly literate, so if you'd like to engage in some sort of Grammar Nerd War, I'm all for it -- but you should be VERY CAREFUL when calling other people "dummies" when you can't even SPELL the word P-U-N-C-T-U-A-T-I-O-N correctly. And it's also pretty tragic that you think women over the tender age of THIRTY aren't sexy unless they've had plastic surgery and have some level of notoriety. I pity you.
Snap!
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Being sexy is all about confidence and owning who you are. Age has nothing to do with it . . . but it can help. :)
I don't agree...things have changed and are getting better all the time for actresses over 40....Michelle Pfieffer recently had a "comeback" at almost 50 and looks fantastic....still in demand are Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Diane Lane, etc. all over 40 and looking good....Marisa Tomei was smoking hot in "Til the devil knows you're dead" and has such an incredible body at 43 that she is playing a stripper in a new film coming out...times have changed...many women in the forties and smokin' hot and in demand!
Deep philosophy here,... Of course if all you have to offer the world is your tits and ass when they "wilt" you are seriously screwed... What incredible insight this skank has.. no one has EVER thought of this before! ...~perhaps Obama texted her his thoughts on the subject? --To make matters right we should listen to endlessly to SJ's bullshit and dream of staring at this cunt in Ultra-High Definition close-up circa 2020.. So much to look forward to!
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