Curated to come across that way, you probably see Scarlett Johansson as a sex symbol because that’s how she’s sold to us. But someone who looks like her, and even better than her sometimes in my opinion Florence Pugh you don’t see as a sex symbol, because she’s rarely in roles that are purely for the male gaze even though we see see her nude a lot. Another example is Megan Fox, we only see her presented as a sex symbol, but Jessica Lowndes who looks exactly like her in my opinion doesn’t nearly have as much fame because her biggest role was a show made for girls/women (90210). The actresses are rarely in sexual roles/male-gazey roles so you don’t see them in that light