James Gray Explains Scarlett Johansson Missed 6-Minute Cannes FaceTime as She Films in New York
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · May 17
James Gray Explains Scarlett Johansson Missed 6-Minute Cannes FaceTime as She Films in New York
3 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · May 17
Summary
James Gray said Scarlett Johansson did not snub his FaceTime during Paper Tiger’s Cannes ovation; he never warned her he would call and she was working in New York.
Johansson, absent from the festival while filming The Exorcist reboot, sent a note praising Gray, the cast and cinema’s power to create “shared human experience.”
Paper Tiger stars Adam Driver and Miles Teller as brothers entangled with Russian gangsters in 1980s New York, with Johansson playing Teller’s wife.
At Sunday’s press conference, the team mostly avoided controversy: Driver declined to address Lena Dunham’s claims about his behavior on Girls, while Gray linked the film’s 1980s setting to a market-driven political climate.