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"I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then"

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A-list glamour runs on a careful lie: that the human body can be endlessly edited without ever seeming edited. Scarlett Johansson’s line pokes a needle straight into that balloon, using a video-game joke to expose the absurd expectations baked into celebrity womanhood. The “hope” sounds playful, even vain on the surface, but it’s really a trapdoor into critique: if her most flattering form is a digitized avatar, what does that say about the standard she’s being held to in real life?

The punchline lands because cellulite is such an unglamorous, stubbornly ordinary detail - the kind that almost every adult body has, and almost no red-carpet image will admit. By choosing that specific “flaw,” Johansson sidesteps the grand rhetoric of body politics and goes for something tactile, visual, and slightly taboo. It’s not a manifesto; it’s a wink that still stings.

The video-game reference matters, too. Games (and blockbuster cinema) have a long history of smoothing women into glossy, hyper-controlled surfaces. Her quip acknowledges how easily the entertainment machine turns a person into an asset: scanned, rendered, optimized. Coming from an actress whose roles often traffic in stylized sexuality and high-definition scrutiny, it reads as both self-protective humor and a quiet protest. If the culture wants her perfected, she’ll point out the cost of that perfection - and make you laugh while you notice it.

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Johansson, Scarlett. (2026, January 16). I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hope-they-make-a-video-game-of-me-at-least-i-136641/

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Johansson, Scarlett. "I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hope-they-make-a-video-game-of-me-at-least-i-136641/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hope-they-make-a-video-game-of-me-at-least-i-136641/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is a Actress from USA.

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