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What Scarlett Johansson Wants: AI Boundaries, Respect for Blockbusters—and Revenge on Michael Che

The director of ‘Eleanor the Great’ and star of ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ on being sexualized as a teen, how “we’re being muzzled” by Trump’s tech allies, and more.

In fact, the whole cast shines: Erin Kellyman as a student journalist intrigued by Eleanor; Hecht, who costarred with Johansson in a 2010 A View From the Bridge Broadway revival; and Zohar, a veteran actor who once starred in Yiddish theater and whose performance is richly affecting. The Rebirth reel screened for me felt like a spirited, transporting throwback, stuffed with Steven Spielberg homages while propelled by a true sense of adventure that gets lost in most IP sequels. “They’re building floors in the rainforest and bringing in electricity and all the comfort stations for people, and then they have to pack everything out and leave it untouched—but we shot in monsoon season, so then a flash flood would wash half the set away,” Johansson says.

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