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September 28, 2025  /  Owner

deadline.com – Scarlett Johansson has wanted to direct since she was 12 years old. On the set of Robert Redford’s 1998 film The Horse Whisperer — her seventh movie as an actor — she saw the specific way he worked, the way he understood his actors, and she had a clear thought: I want to do that someday.

Obviously, in the almost 30 years since Johansson made that private wish, it’s not as though she’s been waiting for something to happen. Oscar-nominated twice and a Tony winner for her work on Broadway, she serves as executive producer and stars as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She founded her production company These Pictures in 2017, and, along with Redford, her director collaborators over the years include Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola, Jonathan Glazer, the Coens, Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson. She’ll reconvene with the latter at Cannes, since she’s appearing in his latest — their third go-round together — The Phoenician Scheme.

Somehow, though, the right directing project never came along, until last year, when Johansson’s old friend Celine Rattray at Maven Screen Media gave her a script about an older, lonely woman named Eleanor who moves to New York after the death of her best friend. Attached to the film was 94-year-old June Squibb, the Oscar-nominated MVP of Alexander Payne’s 2013 film Nebraska.

When we sit down together in a New York photo studio, Johansson has just wrapped the shoot accompanying this article, and quick as a flash, she’s wiped off all the makeup and is back in her regular clothes — a chic but low-key jacket and pants. Her only adornment is a little jewelry, including her signature multiple earrings. She’ll shortly be off to another shoot, this time for QVC for The Outset — the clean, environmentally conscious skincare line she developed.

When I tell her I’ve seen the film, Eleanor the Great, she seems to feel something strangely novel, being a director putting her own feature out there, after so many years in the business. “It’s such a funny thing to have people seeing it, because I’ve lived with it for a long time,” she says. “I guess I’ve never had that experience of making something and not… It’s different. When you’re acting in something, it’s out of your hands, of course. Obviously, I’ve been working on this in such a bubble, that then to share it with everybody, it’s great.” She says this experience “initially felt a little nerve-wracking, but now I’m realizing, hopefully it will be widely shared. But it’s such a different feeling than waiting to see how a director cut your performance, or what their takeaway was from the work that you guys did together. It surprises me when people say they’ve seen the film.”

The Eleanor script had an immediate impact. “When I read it, I cried, and that almost never happens,” she says. “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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