Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson has shared insights on her feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. The first-time director revealed that for the June Squibb-starrer, she cast real holocaust survivors to “share their stories”.

Johansson, 40, told an international publication, “It wasn’t really ever a question of whether we would cast real survivors. It was more of how we can identify people that would want to and could participate. So, we got really lucky”.