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Scarlett Johansson Finds Social Media Hunt Of Celebrities ‘Disturbing’

By Anne Sewell
Published on: 07:55 PST, Jun 1, 2016

Scarlett Johansson is currently involved in filming of Ghost in the Shell, which is drawing enough controversy itself, what with the whole “Hollywood whitewashing” thing.

Besides the backlash from the fact that she is not Asian and is playing what is indisputably an Asian role, Johansson recently said in an interview that she finds the way the media and social media targets celebrities to be “disturbing.”

Let’s face it, Scarlett is way “out there.” She has twice been named Esquire‘s sexiest woman alive, and has followed an impressive career in Hollywood, starring in several blockbusters and also dramatic roles.

As reported by the Inquisitr, Ghost in the Shell, her current project, is based on the Kodansha Comics Manga series of the same name, and Scarlett is playing the part of Major Kusanagi, “a special ops, one-of-a-kind human-cyborg hybrid,” leading the Section 9 elite task force in stopping the most dangerous extremists and criminals.

While the controversy over whitewashing continues, this doesn’t seem to faze Scarlett. Johansson is also starring as the character Black Widow in the Marvel cinematic universe, and has received nominations for four Golden Globes for her roles in dramas like Lost in Translation and Girl With a Pearl Earring.

The 31-year-old actress has been starring in films for around two decades and has several projects on the go, including the animated film, Sing, currently in the pipeline.

As reported by KOMO News, despite her fame, Scarlett would prefer privacy in her life, and finds it is highly “disturbing” how celebrities are victimized in this day and age, both in the media and social media.

Since she started out in the film industry, Scarlett says A-listers are now being targeted on their every move by the media, and by the public via the Internet, and this horrifies her.

“You know, I didn’t grow up in the glare of social media. That stuff wasn’t an issue when I was a teenager,” she explained to OK! Magazine.

“I remember watching Macaulay Culkin dealing with [the media], but it was because he had that Shirley Temple effect [and] he was making so much money. That was a very unusual situation,” said Scarlett.

Johansson went on to say that she was in the same generation as Kirsten Dunst and Natalie Portman, although a little younger, but said that none of them were dealing with the media and online onslaught like the young stars are today.

“Watching it snowball into what it has become today, it’s so disturbing.”

As reported by Stuff.co.nz, Culkin has been in the headlines numerous times over the years for everything from being arrested for marijuana possession, to revealing he had slept in the same bed as Michael Jackson in the days when sexual abuse allegations surrounding the King of Pop came out.

Scarlett herself says she makes an avid effort to keep her private life just that – private — especially when it comes to her marriage to her French husband, Romain Dauriac, and their daughter, Rose, born back in 2014.

However, whatever she does, Johansson says even when she is in her husband’s home country, she can’t go unrecognized when out and about.

“People in France are just as crazy about movies as any other place,” she said. “It’s probably a similar reaction as in New York: People in big cities are involved in their own thing and (not as) totally star struck as if you were in a more rural place. [But] fans are fans everywhere.”

Of course, it’s not just the young stars being targeted these days. No doubt Brad and Angelina Jolie Pitt and George and Amal Clooney will sympathize privately with Scarlett, while the general onslaught of so-called “divorce” rumors keep doing the rounds of the tabloids and social media, when all they want to do is just get on with their lives.

[Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images]

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