When Scarlett Johansson was doing press forAvengers , an interviewer asked her if she was " able-bodied to wear unmentionable " beneath her Black Widow costume . She respond , " You ’re like the 5th person that ’s inquire me that today . "
Sometimes, talk show hosts and interviewers seem to forget that the celeb they’re talking to is an actual human being, not just an attractive face or body. In some cases, the celebs won’t stand for it, so they call them out.
Here are 14 times interviewers tried to objectify a celeb’s body, and the celeb shut them down:
1.Howard Sterntried to make hisinterviewwithMariah Careyall about what she was (or wasn’t) wearing, but she refused to let him get to her.
Here’s the full clip, with this part starting at the 0:20 mark:
2.In a since-deletedTikTokfrom early 2023, an Access Hollywood red carpet reporter askedPedro Pascalto read some thirst tweets out loud, without asking him previously if it was okay to do so on camera, but he read them to himself.
Then, when they asked him to pick a favorite, he declined.
3.WhenAnne Hathawayappeared onThe Today Showin 2012,Matt Lauermocked and shamed her about a paparazzi picture that had been taken under her skirt.
Watch the full clip below, starting at the 1:10 mark:
4.When Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader appeared onDenver’s KWGN stationto promoteThe Skeleton Twinsin 2014, the interviewer made a bad joke about her doing a nude scene — which actually didn’t appear in the movie at all.
Watch the full clip below, with this part starting at the 1:45 mark:
5.When Nicole Scherzinger appeared onConan, she stopped mid-sentence to call the host out for staring at her cleavage.
Watch the full clip below, with this part happening at the 0:08 mark:
6.When Megan Fox appeared onJimmy Kimmel Live!in 2009, she told a story about planning to sneak out and meet up with her 15-year-old crush at summer camp when she was 10, and Jimmy made a sexual joke.
She also discussed her first experience with director Michael Bay, where he had her dancing in a bikini and heels under a waterfall at 15 years old when she was an extra onBad Boys II.
Here’s the full video, with this parts at the 4:43 mark and the 9:00 mark:
She later spoke out about theresurfaced interviewin 2021, telling theWashington Post, “That was a microcosm of my whole life and whole interaction with Hollywood. It was just very dark.”
She continued , " I was so lost and trying to understand , like , how am I supposed to feel value or bump purpose in this terrible , patriarchal , misogynistic hell that was Hollywood at the metre ? Because I had already been speak out against it and everyone , including other woman , received me in a very electronegative way for doing it . "
7.In a 2009ET Canadainterview, the reporter kept trying to flirt with Megan Fox, so she playfully shut him down.
Watch the full video below, with this part starting at the 1:42 mark:
8.When Jessica Alba appeared onLate Night with David Letterman, she talked about how uncomfortable she felt wearing a tiny outfit inHoney. The host was only interested in how revealing the outfit was.
9.When 17-year-old Britney Spears appeared on TROS TV, a Dutch show, in 1999, interviewer Ivo Niehe asked her about her breasts because “everyone’s talking about it.” He also showed a newspaper article speculating whether or not she’d gotten breast implants.
Watch the full clip below, with this part starting at the 6:17 mark:
10.When David Letterman’s camera zoomed in on Jennifer Lopez’s chest, she shot a warning look directly into the lense.
11.When Zac Efron appeared onThe Ellen DeGeneres Showin 2019, the host compared his body to his wax figure’s.
However, he encouraged viewers to not glamorize hisBaywatchbody and the unrealistic standards it set. Then, Ellen interrupted him to lift up his shirt.
Here’s the full clip, with this part starting at the 1:46 mark:
12.When Helen Mirren appeared onParkinsonin 1975, host Michael Parkinson essentially asked if her bra size hindered her acting career.
Here’s the full clip, with this part starting at the mark:
13.When Scarlett Johansson was asked about what she wore under her Black Widow costume in a 2012Extrainterview, she used it as an opportunity to call out how rude that question was.
Here’s the full video:
14.And finally, at the 2006 Golden Globes, Isaac Mizrahi, who was doing red carpet interviews for E!, grabbed Scarlett Johansson’s boob.
Scarlett later told theLA Times, “I’d been preparing for two hours with hair and makeup and getting dressed. And the first interview I do, someone who I have never met before fondles me for his own satisfaction.”
" Mostly I was thinking , ' Oh my God . This is happen on live TV . ' He was make some shocking show or whatever for his channel and wanted to be unlike and racy and all those things , " she say .
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