I was boiling “urine” in a test tube, holding said test tube with a metal scissor contraption over a naked flame. The first scene we ever shot was the Conchita Warren storyline, about a woman who’d had 24 children. There’s no room for squeamishness, only the practical. I watched a lot of One Born Every Minute but I also genuinely think growing up on a farm, watching animals giving birth and my dad helping deliver them, prepared me for the pragmatic nature of portraying a midwife. The birth scenes were exhausting – not least for the actress performing the labour. Babies always bring hope, but still things can go so badly wrong. “People just looked at me as if I was a weirdo.We confront those things on the programme – life and death and birth and never being entirely sure. “I dressed up and went down to the center of town with a photographer, but no one came out to see me,” said Shumskaya, who reportedly cried about her anonymity, according to the Mirror. time, her followers encouraged her to go to the Moscow premiere of “Black Widow” dressed up as Johansson, but she seem able to convince anyone that she was the movie’s star. To really make a career out of cosplaying as the actress, the model said she needs to move out of Russia. To really make it big, though, the model said she’d have to move out of Russia to have a career as a cosplayer, but she still makes an attempt. She first tried it out at 17, becoming “quite popular” in her region of Russia, but was deterred by the negative comments and messages she received online. this isn’t Shumskaya’s only attempt at modeling. “I woke up one morning and thought, ‘My youth is passing me by and no one will even notice me soon.'” The model, who has millions of TikTok followers, said she just wants her own life. “I was starting to have enough of my work and thought it didn’t bring in the income I felt I deserved,” she said of her previous job as a construction sales manager. Kate Shumskaya/Instagramīefore her transition to modeling and content creation, she brought in $700 a month, which worried her parents when she said she wanted to pursue modeling.
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The model’s striking features mimic those of Johansson, so much so that she has attempted to dress up as the actress at movie premieres. “I want to live my own life, not Scarlett’s,” she said, according to the Mirror, despite dressing up as the “Avengers” star for TikTok videos.īut her surprising lookalike features are what makes her a living - earning enough to support herself and her parents - after racking up views and follows on her first cosplay TikTok under the popular Russian hashtag #whodoilooklike, she said. When the actress was accused of whitewashing an Asian character in “Ghost in the Shell,” Shumskaya received some of the hate mail, some even going as far as to threaten to “kill her.” Shumskaya’s cosplaying is complete with a wig and costumes. She also bears the brunt of some backlash the real Johansson, 37, faces because of her doppelgänger appearance. While it may seem like an ideal life, she claimed it isn’t as easy as it seems - lookalike modeling can be rare. “I’ve known I look like her for a while, but I didn’t really think anything of it.” The TikToker sometimes receives comments meant for Johansson. She first learned she shared similar features to the actress when she was in school at approximately 12 years old when some classmates made comments about her uncanny resemblance. Ekaterina Shumskaya is a model and cosplayer, making money and garnering fans online because of her looks. Now, because of her convincing looks, she’s been able to make a mint as a model and moved from her hometown of Maykop to Moscow earlier this year. “My followers always ask if I’ve ever spoken to her or whether Scarlett knows if I exist,” she said, according to the Mirror. “In social networks, I am often thanked for the excellent acing in the film ‘Black Widow,’ ” she told Caters. However, she has 10.2 million TikTok followers, and occasionally some of them are fooled into thinking she’s actually the acclaimed actress. Kate Shumskaya/Instagram Getty Images Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP “We just look alike.” A Russian TikTok creator has an uncanny resemblance to Marvel actress Scarlett Johansson.
“There are people on the internet who confuse me with Scarlett, but I’m not pretending to be her,” 24-year-old Ekaterina Shumskaya, who goes by Kate, told Caters News. No, the “Black Widow” isn’t in Russia - that’s just her doppelgänger.Ī Russian TikToker, who looks eerily like Marvel actress Scarlett Johansson, said she “wants her own life” after being repeatedly mistaken for the actress.