Scarlett Johansson

I think it was pretty obvious that that was necessary because when you start to talk about casting people for it, it just felt kind of like a phony, I wouldn't even know what I would be looking for exactly.

It just felt very important and a must, an absolute must that we identify survivors that wanted to participate and then were able to participate.

And, you know, can we create an environment where...

You know, those people could sit with us for a couple of days and not, you know, in general comfort.

You know, luckily living in New York, you know, there was a lot of different roads that we could kind of go down.

Jessica Hack, who's a fantastic actor and extraordinary in the film, who plays Lisa, Eleanor's daughter, she is very involved in the Jewish community here in New York.

And so she was able to identify a couple of our survivors just through the community and

And also we, you know, we worked with Roda Shalom, the temple that we shot the film actually, where Eleanor's character is bat mitzvahed.

They helped us to identify some people.

The Shoah Foundation also helped us out.

So we just kind of sent out the...

That signal.

And we were very, very fortunate to be able to come up with a group that we did.

And tomorrow we'll be having our screening in New York.

And yeah, we'll be inviting our group to come and enjoy the film with their family.

I'm so excited for them to see it.

Because that population is dwindling.

June was dreaming her Torah portion.

I was.

And then we ended up cutting it.