- LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson said she remains committed to
acting in projects she’d personally enjoy watching, even as she makes her
directorial debut with the new drama film Eleanor the Great.
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- The 40-year-old actress stepped behind the camera for the
first time on the drama film which follows 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein who
moves to New York after years living with her late best friend many States away
to live with her daughter and forms an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old
journalism student.
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- Johansson will be seen on screen in the upcoming film
'Jurassic World Rebirth' as covert operative Zora Bennett and, although she
found directing to be creatively rewarding, she still is up for roles in the
right movies, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
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- The actress specifically wants to star in films that have
the potential to attract audiences to the cinema.
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- In an interview with Collider, she said: "My
intention is to work on projects I would go and see, whether they're like
'Jurassic World' or this film.
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- "The commerciality of things is also important to
me, too. Would audiences want to see this, too? Is this generally interesting?
Those are things I look for and focus on and care about. So, we’ll see, I
guess. I'm certainly still an actor for hire — I want that to be widely
printed."
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- Johansson screened 'Eleanor the Great' at the Cannes Film
Festival and she has said she shed many tears when directing on set because of
the movie's emotional story.
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- The 'Black Widow' star hopes the film will have the same
effect on audiences as she learned long ago that it is a powerful thing to be
able to cry over a movie in public.
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