She shared the official guidance on conscientious objection and that she was anti-abortion.
Wes Anderson's new film The Phoenician Scheme has the most star-studded line-up at Cannes this year, with Johansson, Benicio Del Toro, Tom Hanks and Benedict Cumberbatch all featuring, as well as Riz Ahmed, Bryan Cranston and Richard Ayoade.Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone appear in Eddington, a pandemic-era dark comedy Western from Ari Aster.
Director Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague is described as telling the story of the making of Jean Luc Godard's 1960 classic Breathless, in the same style and spirit as the original.Black Widow star Johansson has stepped behind the camera and will premiere her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, about a 94-year-woman who is unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight.Fellow US actress Kristin Stewart will also bring a film she has directed - The Chronology of Water, adapted from writer Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir of the same name.
Meanwhile, British star Harris Dickinson is another actor moving behind the camera, with Urchin telling the story of a rough sleeper in London who struggles to turn his life around.Their films will all compete in the festival's secondary Un Certain Regard strand.
Elsewhere, Hollywood legend Robert De Niro will collect the honorary Palme d'Or.
Spike Lee's fifth film with Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest, will get its premiere out of competition. It's a reinterpretation of Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller High and Low, "played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City".Meanwhile, the males, which are six to seven times more toxic than the females, are used for the antivenom programme and milked every two weeks, Emma explains.
The pipette she uses to remove the venom from the fangs is attached to a suction hose - crucial for collecting as much venom as possible, since each spider provides only small amounts.While a few drops is enough to kill, scientists need to milk 200 of these spiders to have enough to fill one vial of antivenom.
A marine biologist by training, Emma never expected to spend her days milking spiders. In fact, she started off working with seals.But now she wouldn't have it any other way. Emma loves all things arachnid, and goes under various nicknames - spider girl, spider mama, even "weirdo", as her daughter calls her.