- LOS ANGELES — Hollywood
actress Scarlett Johansson was visibly moved by the script of her upcoming film
'Eleanor The Great'. The film marks her directorial debut.
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- The 40-year-old actress is stepping behind the camera as she
takes on the role of director for the upcoming drama - which follows a year-old
Floridian woman (played by June Squibb ) as she forms an unlikely friendship
with a 19-year-old student (played by Erin Kellyman) in New York City, and
could see a "great possibility" in the emotional screenplay that
reminded her of films made in decades gone by, reports ‘Female First UK’.
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- She told ‘Deadline’, "When I read it, I cried, and that
almost never happens. Sometimes you’ll read a script that’s really moving. When
I read 'Jojo Rabbit', I cried. Sometimes a script will move you like that,
which is extraordinary”.
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- "I could see there was a great possibility in it. I
thought, ‘Oh, actually, I think I could tell this story.’ It reminded me so
much of independent film from the mid to late ’90s. I was a kid of the ’90s. I
was working in independent film at that time, and I watched a lot of movies in
that period of time that were throughout the ’90s into the early aughts, like
'Crossing Delancey' and movies like that I loved as a kid. Richard LaGravenese
made a great movie called Living Out Loud, and then certain Woody Allen movies
from that period of time, too, that are films that I gravitate toward as just a
fan”, she added.
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- As per ‘Female First UK’, the 'Black Widow' star.then
recalled that she had been put on such a tight schedule to get the film made
but felt "so lucky" when two major production compies got involved.
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- She said, "I got the script in August, and I was like,
‘We have to make it this winter’. That was very stressful, like crazy, crazy
stressful. It fell apart a thousand different times. I don’t want to say I’m a
film snob, but I love Sony Pictures Classics. The idea of working with TriStar
was amazing, it was perfect. I couldn’t have asked for better partners than
Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar. Nicole Brown, our executive at TriStar, is
incredible, a dream executive. I was lucky”.
