Cannes 2025: Scarlett Johansson honoured with back-to-back standing ovations

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson had her moment at the ongoing edition of the Cannes Film Festival The actress feature directorial debut ldquoEleanor the Great competing in the Un Certain Regard competitionThe film stars June Squibb Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman and it earned Johansson and her cast a fiveminute standing ovation reports VarietyJohansson was escorted by her allpowerful agent and CEO of CAA Bryan LourdAs per Variety her husband ldquoWeekend Updaterdquo anchor Colin Jost arrived solo and mingled with Sony Pictures Classics executives Tom Bernard and Michael Barker Reigning best actor Oscar winner Adrien Brody and his partner Georgina Chapman also attended chatting up JostIntroducing the film Johansson said premiering it at Cannes is ldquoreally a dream come truerdquoldquoWhen you make a film thatrsquos an independent film like this no onersquos doing it for the money surprise surpriserdquo she continued ldquoReally everyone that came together for this film came together because they loved the story the script so much Itrsquos a film about many things itrsquos about friendship itrsquos about grief itrsquos about forgiveness And I think those are all themes that we can use a lot more of these daysrdquoldquoEleanor the Greatrdquo sees Squibb play the witty and proudly troublesome 94yearold Eleanor Morgenstein who after a devastating loss tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its ownAfter the screening ended to rapturous applause Johansson gave Squibb a tender hug that seemed to go on for several minutes She later described her lead star as ldquotruly inspiringrdquo She also called Kellyman an ldquoabsolute revelationrdquo and said she was ldquoso excited for the world to meet herrdquoldquoItrsquos a film that I feel is historic and also very timely now and so I hope that you all carry it with you the way that I carry Eleanor with merdquo Johansson said as the clapping came to a closeJohansson is on double duty this year in Cannes as shersquos also among the bumper star cast of Wes Andersonrsquos ldquoThe Phoenician Schemerdquo Shersquos also something of a Cannes veteran having previously attended for Andersonrsquos last film ldquoAsteroid Cityrdquo in 2023 Prior to that she was in Cannes for two Woody Allen films ldquoVicky Cristina Barcelonardquo in 2008 and for ldquoMatch Pointrdquo in 2005Johansson produced ldquoEleanor the Greatrdquo with Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn for These Pictures Kara Durrett and Jessamine Burgum for Pinky Promise and Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler of Maven Screen MediaWayfarer Studios cofinanced the film with Content Engineers Pinky Promise and MacPac Steve Sarowitz Justin Baldoni Jamey Heath and Andrew Calof are executive producing for Wayfarer Studios Ezra Gabay and Raj Kishor Khaware are executive producing on behalf of Content EngineersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeveratOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params