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Scarlett Johansson on being a role model and artistic integrity

Scarlett Johansson appears on two different covers of Dazed & Confused's Spring 2014 issue, in which she says she doesn't want to be a role model.

If you have a Dazed & Confused magazine subscription you’ll have just received the Spring 2014 issue – or will do any day now!

The cover star is Scarlett Johansson, who has shot two different covers for the issue – one dressed pretty casually and looking very natural, whilst in the other she is super-sleek and slicked-back.

The actress recently parted ways with Oxfam, having been an ambassador, after she appeared in an advert for SodaStream, after what she described as 'fundamental difference of opinion' with the charity after it said it opposed all trade from Israeli settlements because they say it is illegal and denies Palestinian rights.

Whilst she doesn’t refer to the incident specifically in the interview, however she does say: 'I don’t see myself as being a role model; I never wanted to step into those shoes. How could I wake up every day and be a normal person if I was completely aware that my image was being manipulated on a global platform. How could I sleep? You have to have peace of mind. You’ve got to be able to protect those things. How else could you exist? You'd go crazy, anybody would go crazy.”

She’s had plenty of success over the years, but says that you can’t think about what will or won’t be a success when going into a film. “You have to have your own artistic integrity, and then you don’t cave in to pressure,” she says. “I don’t know what the audience or the studio are going to like. I just follow my instincts.”

Read the full interview in the Spring 2014 issue of Dazed & Confused.

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Posted by Claire Sharp.

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