Regardless of being tremendous well-known, Scarlett Johansson is the kind of celeb who appears to stability her work and personal life extraordinarily nicely. However that didn’t simply magically occur.
The “Avengers” alum instructed InStyle in a profile revealed Tuesday that way back she created a agency boundary with followers that she encounters within the wild and off the clock. Mainly, until she’s at an occasion wherein she’s working — like a crimson carpet or doing internet hosting duties at “Today” — she doesn’t take pictures with followers.
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“It really offends a lot of people,” Johansson stated. “It doesn’t mean I’m not appreciative, of course, that people are fans, or happy to see me. But I always say to people, ‘I’m not working.’ [And that means] I don’t want to be identified as being in this time and place with you. I’m doing my own thing.”
“I like to be in my own thoughts that have nothing to do with what other people think of me,” she stated. “I don’t like being self-conscious.”
Though some followers may get salty that they don’t have photographic proof that they met Black Widow in actual life, Johansson says that holding agency on this boundary permits her to dwell a extra regular life.
“I want to go and buy my own shit at Duane Reade,” she stated.
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The “Marriage Story” star’s overt admission that she sticks to her boundaries regardless of some followers’ chagrin aligns with these set by pop star Chappell Roan.
Final summer season, Roan turned an in a single day sensation because of her hit single “Good Luck, Babe” when she was beforehand thought of extra of a distinct segment artist for years. But, for Roan, her seemingly fast ascent to fame additionally got here with a impolite awakening.
After a string of very uncomfortable encounters with followers, Roan posted a video to social media in August 2024 wherein she bluntly instructed followers to again off.
“I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking, whatever, is a normal thing to do to people who are famous or a little famous, whatever. I don’t care that it’s normal.”
She continued,“I’m allowed to say no to creepy behavior.”
Though Roan initially received some pushback from followers for being so frank, the Grammy-winner’s causes for posting this video make complete sense.
The “Hot to Go” singer instructed Rolling Stone in September that she had two back-to-back incidents that made her really feel extraordinarily uncomfortable.
She instructed the journal that final August, a fan grabbed her and kissed her with out consent whereas she was out celebrating a good friend’s birthday. Later that very same night, Roan discovered that her father’s telephone quantity had been leaked on-line and folks had been calling him. She additionally famous to the journal that previous to this, she had been harassed by a fan whom she refused to take a photograph with, and needed to rent safety to cope with a stalker.
Johansson instructed InStyle that regardless of the preliminary backlash Roan skilled for setting a boundary along with her followers, she immediately associated with Roan’s plight.
“Like everybody else, I fell in love with her over the summer,” Johansson stated of Roan. “She’s very outspoken about how hard it’s been to adjust to fame.”
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The “Lost in Translation” star added that budding on her personal boundaries is in the end a shedding battle.
“The thing about being a public figure is that the idea of being recognizable and celebrated feels fun, but then you can never stuff it back in the bottle,” she stated.
