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deadline.com – The director of Eleanor the Great and star of Jurassic World Rebirth on being sexualized as a teen, how “we’re being muzzled” by Trump’s tech allies, and more.
Whatever kind of diner food you’re into is going to be delicious—and also enormous.”
Scarlett Johansson is priming me on what to order at the Ritz Diner, a 60-year-old institution in her Upper East Side neighborhood. She’s just walked in wearing bulky circumaural headphones, a plush turquoise turtleneck, and an old Yankees cap, and we’re sitting in a small booth by a window with the blinds closed. Today may technically still be in the midst of a dreary New York winter, but this buoyant mid-March afternoon—the temperature inching toward 60 degrees, the sun brightly shining—is signaling the beginning of spring. Before ordering a turkey sandwich on rye, Johansson suggests a change in the season will do us all some good: “It’s such a weird time.”
She smiles the kind of nervous smile my mother gives me when she’s spent too many hours doomscrolling. “For me, there’s a blanket of unease,” she says. “Every day it feels like you’re going to get hit with some news that’s disturbing.” She asks for a black coffee and a seltzer. I tell her my husband is urging me to disable push alerts on my phone. “No, I get it,” she says. “It’s awful. I’m thinking, Should I just get rid of my whole news feed now?”
We trade a few more stories about general political anxiety before Johansson downloads me on her experience at the Oscars from a week prior. She presented alongside June Squibb, the 95-year-old star of Johansson’s feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great—which, it just so happens, includes the Ritz Diner as a key location. They nailed a bit about Squibb actually being the latest disguise of 34-year-old Bill Skarsgård, the hunky shape-shifting star of Nosferatu and It. “June was so excited, it made me feel excited too,” Johansson says. Otherwise, she has some beef with the Oscars telecast: “Why was it so long?” I suggest that the elongated tribute to the James Bond franchise might be one possible culprit. “No comment,” Johansson says, then comments, “It felt like an ad placement. What a weird thing.” She didn’t watch the whole tribute but gauged the reaction at an after-party. “People were like, ‘What the hell was that?’?”
Johansson last attended the Oscars five years ago, when she was a double nominee for her devastating turns in Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit. Back then, Hollywood’s resistance to Donald Trump remained voluble. Now he’s barely acknowledged at public events, including the Academy Awards. I ask what Johansson thinks of this shift, since before Trump’s reelection she’d called the idea of him becoming president again “unfathomable.” She reminds me of who attended Trump’s inauguration in January.
“These are people that are funding studios. It’s all these big tech guys that are funding our industry, and funding the Oscars, and so there you go,” Johansson says. “I guess we’re being muzzled in all these different ways, because the truth is that these big tech companies are completely enmeshed in all aspects of our lives.” How do you fight that? “I don’t know how you fight that,” she says, pointing to The Apprentice, the lightning rod Trump tale starring Sebastian Stan that most studios refused to touch. (It was acquired by the small distributor Briarcliff Entertainment and received two Oscar nominations.) “Here’s where you would go, ‘Okay, you can fight it by making stuff like that,’?” she says. “But then what happened with the release? It was buried.”
As her friends will tell you, Johansson is among the most outspoken A-listers we’ve got. “There’s a leadership quality inherent in everything she does,” says her fellow Avenger Robert Downey Jr. In 2021 Johansson sued the Walt Disney Company after the studio released Black Widow simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+, which was a watershed moment in actors’ fight for fair compensation in the streaming era. After reaching a settlement, she got right back into business with the Mouse House, spearheading a Tower of Terror movie, which she is still working on.



































