Zack Sharf Digital News Director Wes Anderson brought cowboys, aliens and movie stars to the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, earning a six-minute standing ovation at its world premiere. Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Matt Dillon, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Norton, Margot Robbie and Jeff Gollum are among the starry ensemble cast — many of whom were in attendance at the Grand Palais with their notoriously stylish and exacting director. The project tells of a desert tourist trap that was one the site of an asteroid landing, which also doubles as the location of an annual camp for “star gazers and space cadets.” The conceit is a story-within-a-story, as the the cast plays a troupe of actors and stage crew for a play.
Scarlett Johansson Reveals Her ’90s Crush: ‘He Was Like Everything In That Era’
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Scarlett Johansson is taking a trip down memory lane.
The “Black Widow” star is on the new cover of Variety, and in the issue she looks back on her childhood and her early career, and reveals her big early ’90s crush.
“I remember having a total huge crush on Ethan [Hawke] at the time because he was like everything in that era,” she says.
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Pursuing an acting career as a young person was heavily influenced by her family, Johansson recalls.
“I needed a lot of attention. Yeah, ‘Look at me. What about look at me now.’ I think that was a big driving force. I was kind of a ham and I just loved imaginary things. I loved singing and dancing,” the actress says. “My mom showed me all the Golden Age movies and Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. She would take us to see Broadway plays when she could afford it. We’d line up in the half-price ticket line and then go see a show.”
Johansson also shares how important it was having her parents guiding her through her film career as a child actor.
“You need your parents to set boundaries and hold you accountable and keep you away from, like, weird people,” she says. “I was really fortunate that I had that.”
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The 38-year-old’s biggest break came with her role in Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation”, but afterward, she was mostly cast in bombshell type rules.
“It was hard to get out of that pigeonhole. And I did films like ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ and movies that kind of continued that narrative. I couldn’t make any headway,” she says.
“I felt really frustrated and hopeless. Like, ‘Am I
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