Scarlett Johansson is revisiting how life as a famous person felt in the 2000s when she was a teenager and in her early 20s.

Johansson, 41, sat down for an interview on CBS Sunday Morning April 12 to discuss her new skincare line, The Outset, and her decades-long career as an actor. “It was such another time, too,” she said, when asked if she believed the public was “a little too focused on [her] looks” when she was a young woman.

“I think growing up in the entertainment industry and being 20 something years old in the early 2000s, being a 20-year-old woman in the early 2000s in the spotlight, I think in general it was just a really harsh time,” Johansson said. “I think women were just pulled apart for how they looked in a way that was socially acceptable at the time and it was tough. There was a lot placed on how women looked and what was offered at that time for women my age as far as acting roles or opportunities, it was much slimmer than it is now.”

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in 2003’s ‘Lost in Translation’.Focus/Kobal/Shutterstock

Johansson made her screen acting debut in a 1994 episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien and appeared in a number of movies as a child star in the ’90s and early 2000s. She broke out as a major Hollywood star when she and Bill Murray costarred in Sofia Coppola’s 2003 movie, Lost in Translation, and has remained one of the most popular (and highest-grossing) actors in the movie industry for the last two decades.

“I think there’s much more empowering roles available to young actors now than when I was in my 20s,” she added in the interview. “It was slim pickins’, I would say.”

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Johansson said on CBS Sunday Morning that she felt young actresses “would get really pigeonholed” in that time period and offered roles like “the other woman, or the side piece, the bombshell.”

“That was an archetype that there was just a lot of when I was that age,” she added. “It was kind of tricky to navigate around that because there was a lot more that I wanted to do, and I found that doing theatre in New York was a great way to work different muscles and get out of that pattern.”

Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray in ‘Lost in Translation’.Focus/Kobal/Shutterstock

Johansson has opened up about being “hypersexualized” when she was still really young, in part due to the fact that she began acting at such a young age. “The runway is not long on that and so it was scary at that time,” she said during a 2022 interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “And I attributed a lot of that to the fact that people thought I was much, much older than I was.”

Johansson most recently appeared on the big screen in last year’s blockbuster Jurassic World: Rebirth and the Wes Anderson movie The Phoenician Scheme. She will next appear in a voice role in the animated movie Ray Gunn and is currently filming an upcoming sequel in The Exorcist franchise.