I’ve added over 120 high quality photos from the red carpet premiere of Jurassic World Rebirth in Berlin this week.

Premieres have begun around the world for Jurassic World Rebirth, starting in London. Photos from the photocall and world premiere have been added into the photo gallery, along with a few more digital magazine scans.

Digital scans from the US, UK, and Italian issues of Vanity Fair with Scarlett as the cover girl have been added into the photo gallery.

VANITY FAIR – 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.

“Whatever kind of diner food you’re into is going to be delicious—and also enormous.”

Scarlett Johansson is priming me on what to order at the Ritz Diner, a 60-year-old institution in her Upper East Side neighborhood. She’s just walked in wearing bulky circumaural headphones, a plush turquoise turtleneck, and an old Yankees cap, and we’re sitting in a small booth by a window with the blinds closed. Today may technically still be in the midst of a dreary New York winter, but this buoyant mid-March afternoon—the temperature inching toward 60 degrees, the sun brightly shining—is signaling the beginning of spring. Before ordering a turkey sandwich on rye, Johansson suggests a change in the season will do us all some good: “It’s such a weird time.”

She smiles the kind of nervous smile my mother gives me when she’s spent too many hours doomscrolling. “For me, there’s a blanket of unease,” she says. “Every day it feels like you’re going to get hit with some news that’s disturbing.” She asks for a black coffee and a seltzer. I tell her my husband is urging me to disable push alerts on my phone. “No, I get it,” she says. “It’s awful. I’m thinking, Should I just get rid of my whole news feed now?”

We trade a few more stories about general political anxiety before Johansson downloads me on her experience at the Oscars from a week prior. She presented alongside June Squibb, the 95-year-old star of Johansson’s feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great—which, it just so happens, includes the Ritz Diner as a key location. They nailed a bit about Squibb actually being the latest disguise of 34-year-old Bill Skarsgård, the hunky shape-shifting star of Nosferatu and It. “June was so excited, it made me feel excited too,” Johansson says. Otherwise, she has some beef with the Oscars telecast: “Why was it so long?” I suggest that the elongated tribute to the James Bond franchise might be one possible culprit. “No comment,” Johansson says, then comments, “It felt like an ad placement. What a weird thing.” She didn’t watch the whole tribute but gauged the reaction at an after-party. “People were like, ‘What the hell was that?’ ”

Johansson last attended the Oscars five years ago, when she was a double nominee for her devastating turns in Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit. Back then, Hollywood’s resistance to Donald Trump remained voluble. Now he’s barely acknowledged at public events, including the Academy Awards. I ask what Johansson thinks of this shift, since before Trump’s reelection she’d called the idea of him becoming president again “unfathomable.” She reminds me of who attended Trump’s inauguration in January.

“These are people that are funding studios. It’s all these big tech guys that are funding our industry, and funding the Oscars, and so there you go,” Johansson says. “I guess we’re being muzzled in all these different ways, because the truth is that these big tech companies are completely enmeshed in all aspects of our lives.” How do you fight that? “I don’t know how you fight that,” she says, pointing to The Apprentice, the lightning rod Trump tale starring Sebastian Stan that most studios refused to touch. (It was acquired by the small distributor Briarcliff Entertainment and received two Oscar nominations.) “Here’s where you would go, ‘Okay, you can fight it by making stuff like that,’ ” she says. “But then what happened with the release? It was buried.”

As her friends will tell you, Johansson is among the most outspoken A-listers we’ve got. “There’s a leadership quality inherent in everything she does,” says her fellow Avenger Robert Downey Jr. In 2021 Johansson sued the Walt Disney Company after the studio released Black Widow simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+, which was a watershed moment in actors’ fight for fair compensation in the streaming era. After reaching a settlement, she got right back into business with the Mouse House, spearheading a Tower of Terror movie, which she is still working on.

She also called out AI companies for appropriating her likeness and (allegedly) her voice, and is advocating for legislation to curb the technology. She laments to me, however, that she’s felt on her own here. “There has to be some agreed-upon set of boundaries in order for [AI] to not be detrimental. I wish more people in the public eye would support and speak out about that—I don’t know why that’s not the case,” she says.

Johansson keeps close tabs on the Hollywood landscape. She’s trying to make hits in the most unpredictable moviegoing climate in recent memory and wants to resurrect the kind of ’90s big-screen magic that was more prevalent around the beginning of her career and her own adolescence. This is not new: Johansson was only 12 years old when she first realized she wanted to be a director. She had already appeared in a half dozen films as a kid and was on the precipice of her big break in Robert Redford’s sweeping Western tearjerker The Horse Whisperer. Redford was also directing that movie, and Johansson could sense his vision, his command behind the camera, his sensitivity as a mentor. “He would sit me down and take such time talking me through all of the events that led up to the moment in the film—and where I was mentally,” she says. “I’d never experienced anything like that.”

Her interest only grew from there. “She always seemed confident about directing—since I met her, when she was 17,” says Sofia Coppola, who directed her in Lost in Translation. But Johansson then helped lead the billion-dollar-grossing Marvel Cinematic Universe, at one point becoming Hollywood’s highest-paid actress. She is raising a family with her husband, Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost. Directing was never off the table, but a whole lot of life got in the way until now.

Johansson was right: The sandwiches are big. More than an hour in, we’re chatting with nearly untouched halves on our plates. We talk about the SNL tradition in which her husband and his Weekend Update cohost, Michael Che, read each other’s crudest jokes off a teleprompter without knowing the contents in advance. Che’s steadiest target? His colleague’s wife. “Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu,” Jost nervously began on a December show. “But I ain’t trippin’. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.” Johansson was in the studio watching a monitor. The camera caught her horrified laughter.

“I had all these cameras on me. I didn’t expect the setup to be like that,” she says to me now. “I was like, ‘Wow, you really are seventh-, eighth-grade boys.’ ” She grins out of nowhere: “I feel like it’s almost my responsibility to come up with some way to burn Michael back. Retaliation, I’d say, should be expected. Others on the show could support this desire. Know what I mean?” Her eyes sparkle as though there is a plan in the works, and after our interviews, SNL announces that Johansson will host this year’s season finale…

Scarlett was at Cannes for the premiere and press for her directoral debut of Eleanor the Great. Over 1000, yes you read that correctly, photos from the premiere as well as over 500 from the photocall have been added into the gallery.

Episode stills, bumpers, and screen captures from Scarlett’s latest hosting gig on Saturday Night Live have been added into the photo gallery. If you missed the episode, you can watch the entire thing on Peacock and below in the clips!

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May 23, 2025 Jen