If you’ve been following Scarlett Johansson’s career for a while, then you’re probably aware that there’s not a lot of places you can follow her online. ScarJo is that rare breed of A-list celebrity who does not use social media — and in a recent interview with InStyle, she affirmed that she plans to keep it that way, even as requests keep rolling in. “I mean, even today, I got an email from Universal [Pictures], and they’re like, ‘Hey, would you consider joining Instagram in tandem with the release of Jurassic World Rebirth?’ [I] get a lot of pressure to join social media.” Johansson previously acknowledged in an April 2023 episode of The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast that she previously got on Instagram “once for three days,” but deleted it after feeling like she’d “wasted” time looking at someone’s page and getting the urge to “change [her] life” to be more like theirs. “I honestly am too fragile of a person to have social media,” she said. “My ego is too fragile. I can’t deal with it. My brain is too fragile, I’m like a delicate flower. I have enough anxiety.”

While Johansson understands the business potential of the app, she told InStyle that making an account goes against her “core values.” Elsewhere in the interview, the actress similarly emphasized with a laugh that she doesn’t feel like there’s a way she could create an account and “stay true” to who she is. “The work that I put out there is all based in truth. That’s the key ingredient. So if I was a person who really enjoyed social media, then I could totally get on the bandwagon,” Johansson said. “But I’m not. And I think the film will do fine.” It is kind of funny to emphasize that her work is based truth given that her latest movie involves genetically engineered dinosaurs, but we know what she means.

• [InStyle]

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 She says she declined a request from Universal Pictures to make an account for Jurassic World: Rebirth promo.