Nickname is “tacky, lazy, flippant and insulting,” star tells Glamour

Apr 8, 2014 12:20 GMT  ·  By

Scarlett Johansson is still promoting “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” in which she resumes her role as the former Russian spy turned good gal Black Widow, and excerpts from her interview with Glamour reveal just how much she hates being called ScarJo.

Fans probably recall that she said the same in a 2011 interview in which she described this moniker that somehow she got stuck with as the perfect example of how lazy some people are because they refuse to say her name in full.

She elaborates on that idea: “I associate that name with, like, pop stars. It sounds tacky. It’s lazy and flippant… There’s something insulting about it.”

Clearly, she hates the nickname but whether people will actually stop using it is an entirely different matter. In recent years, there’s been a rise in such celebrity monikers, a trend that many believe has to do with the creation of the Brangelina nickname for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

So, today, we have RiRi (Rihanna), Brit Brit (Britney Spears), RPatz (Robert Pattinson), KStew (Kristen Stewart), LiLo (Lindsay Lohan), JHud (Jennifer Hudson), and JLaw (Jennifer Lawrence), to name just some of the most popular celebrity monikers. It’s like every one of them had suddenly decided (or someone else did it for them) to be a rapper and needed a better stage name than the one their parents gave them.

Well, whatever it is, Scarlett would like it to stop. The same goes for the stupid questions women are asked in promo interviews, which usually have nothing to do with their body of work but rather with their physical appearance.

“Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, ‘How do you stay sexy?’ or ‘What’s your sexiest quality?’ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man,” she says. Scarlett has been trying very hard to be taken seriously as an actress and to have people not focus on her beauty anymore.

It’s gotten to a point where she said in one of her most recent interviews that she’s more than just a pretty face, and that she wants people to look past it. As she tells Glamour, she’d also like them to look past her acting history and into her potential.

“When I made Lost in Translation, I was 17. Now I’m 29… That’s a normal side effect of being a young actor. You’re captured in a certain time of your life, and it’s hard for people to move past that,” she says.