Scarlett Johansson was delighted to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival with her spouse, Colin Jost. When asked what it meant to have Jost with her to the Cannes premiere of her new film Asteroid City, she tells PEOPLE exclusively –
“Oh, it’s so fun.”
“It’s awesome. I mean, personally, it’s always fun when you’re not just explaining it to them over the phone, but you’re living your life together, these big profound moments.”
On the red carpet of the French film festival in May, the 38-year-old Oscar-nominated actress was all smiles with Jost, 40, and his wife of nearly three years.
Johansson tells of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City –
“There’s a familial feeling with the whole cast.”
“So everybody’s spouses are all friends with each other. It’s really great. It’s just a very singular experience.”
Her co-actor Jason Schwartzman agrees. Schwartzman reveals –
“Just as a weird side.”
“when the lights came on [after the Cannes screening], the first person I saw was her husband.”
Johansson answers with a chuckle –
“Why?”
Schwartzman says –
“I looked back and he gave me this [look], and I’ll never forget it.”
“So I feel like I connected with him first, he was the first person I saw — like a baby being born.”
In October 2020, the Black Widow actress and Saturday Night Live star wed in an intimate ceremony. After two years of dἀting, the couple became engaged in May 2019 and welcomed a son, Cosmo, in 2021.
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In April, Johansson disclosed to Gwyneth Paltrow on the Goop podcast how her relationship with Jost has altered her life. She said –
“I didn’t know what I wanted or needed from somebody else.”
“I never realized, ‘Oh, it’s really important for me, I need to be with a compassionate person. That’s a fundamental characteristic that has to be there.'”
“And I think that understanding what those fundamental things are that you need in a partner is a must, I think — for longevity, anyway.”
Last month’s premiere of Asteroid City marked only Johansson’s second appearance at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which she first attended in 2005 when she starred in Woody Allen’s Match Point.
Set in a fictitious desert town, Asteroid City follows “a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring students and parents from across the country together for fellowship and scholarly competition)” that is soon “disrupted by world-changing events” — presumably extraterrestrial events.
As with many of Anderson’s other films, it showcases an all-star cast. Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Hong Chau, Maya Hawke, and others have joined Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffrey Wright, Edward Norton, Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, and Adrien Brody in the cast. In the film, Johansson portrays a 1950s fictional actress named Midge Campbell.
Johansson told Variety earlier this month of puzzling out her character –
“I was curious: Who is this person? How did she get here, to be so successful at that time?”
“I like the sort of constraints of Wes’ precision. I think in some ways, it’s more liberating.”
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