10 Exact Moments Actors Thought They Were Finished

Black Widow actor Scarlett Johansson also went through a period in her life when she felt as though her career was done. For an entirely different reason than her Avenger co-star, Paul Bettany, though.

As the actor would explain on Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast, after first making a name for herself at a rather young age, it soon became clear to Johansson that she'd become "objectified and pigeonholed" to the point where she wasn't being offered the sort of parts that she really wanted to dive into.

Things got to the point where the actor felt as though everybody just assumed she was older and had been acting in the industry for far longer than she actually had, with this then leading to her getting "pigeonholed into this weird hypersexualized thing."

And as that frustrating reality sank in, the eventual Academy Award nominee admitted to thinking that her career "was over", feeling that she'd never get the chance to play anything other than the roles she had up to that point.

This obviously didn't turn out to be the case, thankfully, with Johansson going on to challenge herself in everything from Marriage Story to Under the Skin in the years that followed. And the star would also add that she's thankful that the rising stars of today are allowed the freedom to be far more "dynamic" than Johansson was earlier in her career.