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Chatting With June Squibb at Cannes About Matzo-Ball Soup, Men, and Lying
The 95-year-old is at the festival as the lead in Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.
June Squibb was first at Cannes back in 2013 for Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, a role that earned her an Oscar nom for playing Bruce Dern’s spitfire wife. One afternoon, Eleanor accidentally wanders into a Holocaust survivors’ group at the JCC, where, caught off-guard and lonely, she finds herself telling Bessie’s story as if it’s her own. A few days after the film’s premiere, I had lunch with Squibb in her hotel room, and we talked about the movie, her experience converting to Judaism, her love life, and matzo-ball soup.
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