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Scarlett Johansson selects cast for directorial debut
She has already been nominated for an Oscar twice as a leading actress in “Marriage Story” and supporting actress in “Jojo Rabbit”. Now Scarlett Johansson wants to make her directorial debut.
The film is about a 90-year-old named Eleanor Morgenstein (Squibb), who gives up her decades-long life in Florida after a death and moves back to New York alone. The 94-year-old Squibb, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for her supporting role in the road movie “Nebraska,” most recently played a grandmother who takes revenge on a con artist in the comedy-action drama “Thelma.”
Johansson has been nominated for an Oscar twice as a lead actress in “Marriage Story” and as a supporting actress in “Jojo Rabbit.” She most recently starred in “Asteroid City” directed by Wes Anderson and in the directorial debut “North Star” by Brit Kristin Scott Thomas. Nothing was initially known about when “Eleanor the Great” would begin filming.