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Career change: Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson to premiere directorial debuts at Cannes
Eleanor the Great, The Chronology of Water and Urchin are all in the festival’s prestigious Un Certain Regard sidebar. A first step to being the next Clint Eastwood?
Actors broadening their portfolio by dabbling in directing is nothing new, and Cannes has energetically indulged talents such as Sean Penn, Tommy Lee Jones and Clint Eastwood – as well as myriad domestic stars including Mathieu Amalric and Louis Garrell – who have attempted it. This may suggest financiers have been emboldened by the likes of Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who has resisted the temptation to do double duty on her own movies, with no noticeable impact on box office returns. Johansson’s movie, Eleanor the Great, is perhaps the one with the strongest commercial prospects, having already sold to Sony Pictures and now drumming up Oscar buzz for its star, June Squibb, who plays an elderly woman who relocates from Florida to New York.
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