The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Eleanor the Great with Scarlett Johansson and Frank Oz (Ep. 572)


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Director Scarlett Johansson discusses her new film, Eleanor the Great, with fellow Director Frank Oz in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, she discusses how she sees table reads as essential to getting her Actors on the same wavelength, characteristics she looks for in a Directorial Team, and some of the lessons she learned from Directors when working with them as an Actor.

The film tells the story of 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who moves from her Florida retirement community to Manhattan after losing her best friend of seventy years. Soon after, she meets a group of Holocaust survivors and feels compelled to tell a story about her past that takes on a dangerous life of its own.

See photos and a summary of this event below:

https://www.dga.org/events/2025/november2025/eleanorthegreat_qna_0925

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