They aren’t quite a bizarro Avengers, but they — including Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes, who joins later — are all the products of dubious government programs that instill less patriotism than their more plainly heroic counterparts. As a group, they’re plagued by doubt and uncertainty, and they’re more inclined to bicker than give rousing speeches. And whenever anyone brushes too closely with Bob, they drift back into the darkest chapters of their own pasts that pull them like a deadweight toward suicidal thoughts.
“‘Urchin’ was all I could think about. It was pouring out of me. It was all that was on my mind,” he said. “It’s easy to say no when you’ve got something to take you away from that, you know? Nothing that came in would make me question my own film, which is a sign that I had to make it at this time.”The film stars Frank Dillane — who won an acting honor in the Un Certain Regard competition — as a homeless Londoner suffering from drug addiction.
Director Scarlett Johansson poses for a portrait photograph for the film ‘Eleanor the Great’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)Director Scarlett Johansson poses for a portrait photograph for the film ‘Eleanor the Great’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)Johansson is now one of the world’s most recognizable stars. She’s also one of its most respected, earning two Oscar nominations in 2020, for “Marriage Story” and “Jojo Rabbit.”
Her success as an actor helped her take on new roles on films, including producing, and, now, directing.“At some point, I worked enough that I stopped worrying about not working, or not being relevant — which is very liberating,” Johansson says. “I think it’s something all actors feel for a long time until they don’t. I would not have had the confidence to direct this film 10 years ago.”
She says that throughout her career, imagining how to make movies has been part of her process: “Whether it was reading something and thinking, ‘I can envision this in my mind,’ or even being on a production and thinking, ‘I am directing some elements of this out of necessity.’”
The New York-set “Eleanor the Great” stars June Squibb as a 94-year-old who, out of grief and loneliness, takes over her friend’s story of Holocaust survival as her own.Ashaninka Indigenous youths from Brazil and Peru compete by racing up the trunk of an acai tree during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Ashaninka Indigenous youths from Brazil and Peru compete by racing up the trunk of an acai tree during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Sunday, June 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)Apolima-Arara Indigenous men pose for a picture during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Apolima-Arara Indigenous men pose for a picture during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)Apolima-Arara Indigenous youth Ozileia Macedo, right, puts face paint on Antonio Acassio Avelino de Oliveira, during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)