Scarlett Johansson talks , sex symbol status and a whole lot more in the brand new issue of Total Film magazine (also available in our ).

We took the opportunity to ask her about playing an iconic screen figure in Hitchcock , and here's what she told us:

You’re about to play star Janet Leigh opposite . Excited?

“I’m very excited to play her. There was never really an actor I wanted to portray or do a bio of but I do love Janet Leigh. I’ve always loved her. She was such a good actor and sexy. But it never got in the way of her work.

"She was spunky and her relationship with Hitchcock was famously one of great admiration and affection between them.”

On being dubbed a sex symbol herself, Johansson added:

“I never wanted to be a sex symbol. I wanted to be a character actor. Those are the actors I often mostly admire.

"But I think that women that are curvy can be pigeonholed in that bombshell 𝐆thing. I neve﷽r think of my characters as that way."

Hitchcock will open next year. Johansson will next be seen .

For more from Scarlett Johansson, pick up the latest issue of Total Film magazine, which is out now!

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