Tonya Mosley

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This is Fresh Air.

I want to talk to you a little bit about your move from acting to directing.

So you have been acting, Scarlett, since you were a kid.

And you have worked with some incredible directors, Noah Baumbach, Spike Jonze, the late Robert Redford, whom you starred in The Horse Whisperer when you were 13.

And I actually want to play a clip from that movie.

And

Just to give folks a reminder of the movie, which came out in 1998, you played Grace.

She's a girl who had gone through a terrible accident with her horse.

Both were seriously injured.

Your character had part of her leg amputated.

And she had become withdrawn, and her family has turned to Robert Redford's character, who was an expert with horses, to tame and heal the horse.

And he ends up helping Grace as well.

And here is a scene with both of you where he is just starting to work with you and the horse.

And they're getting into his pickup truck.

Let's listen.

Man, that was my guest today, Scarlett Johansson in 1998, starring in The Horse Whisperer with the late Robert Redford, who also directed that movie.

It's so tender, Scarlett.

How do you feel listening back to that?

Am I right that the seed for directing was sort of planted in watching Robert Redford?