Scarlett Johansson has been acting for more than three decades, but when she read the script for Eleanor the Great, she knew it was finally time to take her talents behind the camera. "There were so many things about the story that were both surprising and attractive to me," Johansson, 40, told Us Weekly exclusively at the Cinema Society's special screening of the Sony Pictures Classics film at New York City's Village East Theater on Wednesday, September 24. "I think the intergenerational friendship was very, very moving to me.