{"id":8710,"date":"2025-11-03T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:06:40","slug":"wrinkles-are-traces-of-a-smile-not-a-flaw-colin-jost-destroys-critics-who-called-scarlett-johansson-older-than-her-age-at-40-with-a-single-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=8710","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWrinkles are traces of a smile, not a flaw\u201d: Colin Jost destroys critics who called Scarlett Johansson “older than her age” at 40 with a single post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scarlett Johansson\u2019s recent red-carpet birthday milestone \u2014 her first appearance in the public eye at 40 \u2014 ignited a wave of superficial criticism online. Commenters suggested she looked \u201colder than her age,\u201d with one of the more pointed remarks claiming she appeared \u201clike she\u2019s 50 with wrinkles and outdated style.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not a discussion of her directorial debut.<\/span>
Not her blockbuster slate.<\/span>
Not the extraordinary box-office data attached to her name.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was, instead, the decades-old scrutiny pattern that women in public life still routinely face: the idea that their value is tied to the ability to visually avoid the normal passage of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Colin Jost responds \u2014 directly and gently<\/span><\/h3>\n

Her husband, Colin Jost, pushed back in a short post \u2014 a tone notably different from the online jeers. His line immediately became the counter-headline:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cScarlett is most beautiful when she\u2019s herself \u2014 wrinkles are traces of a smile, not a flaw. Whoever criticizes her should look in the mirror.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It reframed the discourse in a sentence: age is not a defect \u2014 and the record of an expressive life is not an error.<\/span><\/p>\n

Forty \u2014 and expanding, not contracting<\/span><\/h3>\n

Johansson\u2019s year at 40 \u2014 by any industry measurement \u2014 is not a plateau, but a pivot point:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Category<\/span><\/th>\nRecent milestone<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Global cumulative box office<\/span><\/td>\n$15.4 billion<\/strong> (highest-grossing lead actor in film history \u2014 early 2025 data)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Directorial debut<\/span><\/td>\nEleanor the Great<\/em> \u2014 Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere (2025)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Franchise return<\/span><\/td>\nLead role in Jurassic World: Rebirth<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business<\/span><\/td>\nFounder of The Outset, a clean-skincare brand launched in 2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

She is also a two-time Academy Award nominee for 2019\u2019s Marriage Story<\/em> and Jojo Rabbit<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not the profile of an artist in retreat \u2014 it is the profile of an artist expanding her influence, adding new creative lanes, and asserting control over vision, text, and commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bigger story<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jost\u2019s sentence resonated because it undercut a very old narrative: that visible age is a metric of decline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johansson\u2019s actual record points the other direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The work is strong; the evolution is ongoing; the influence is durable.<\/span><\/p>\n

A red carpet can be a moment \u2014 but a career is a body of evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conversation Jost sparked \u2014 intentionally or not \u2014 is this:<\/span><\/p>\n

A life that shows signs of being lived is not something to hide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scarlett Johansson\u2019s recent red-carpet birthday milestone \u2014 her first appearance in the public eye at 40 \u2014 ignited a wave of superficial criticism online. Commenters suggested she looked \u201colder than her age,\u201d with one of the more pointed remarks claiming she appeared \u201clike she\u2019s 50 with wrinkles and outdated style.\u201d It was not a discussion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}