Scarlett Johansson

You know, she introduced me to all the free arts in the city that, you know, we would go to Battery Park and

We would see jazz in Lincoln Center, and we would go to the Tisch School and see plays and young playwrights and all of the dance performances there.

And, you know, she knew every, like, free concert and movie that was playing, and we would go to, you know, the—

theater in Lincoln Center and see independent films.

And she was a very vivacious person.

You know, I got so much out of my friendship with my grandmother.

And I think she just enjoyed me tremendously.

And we would talk about everything, you know, everything.

We'd talk about the family dynamics.

We would talk, you know, later on.

And when I was older, I would talk to her about

you know, boyfriends, sex, our bodies, you know, her experience aging, what she was experiencing physically, politics, all kinds of stuff.

You know, we had such a profoundly special, deep friendship.

You know, and I think that our friendship really, when I read the script of Eleanor the Great, I was...

very moved by the friendship between Nina and Eleanor because it did remind me very much of the dynamic I had with my grandmother and the ease we felt in one another's company.

Yeah.

I mean, I was just remembering that scene.

Um, but I, you know, it's, you can really hear the warmth and kindness and, uh, in Bob's voice and, um, and, and also that his natural way, um, you know, I think that was, he had such a natural way about him, um, in his performance and, uh,

It was in himself.

It's funny to listen to it and not see it.