A very jet-lagged Scarlett Johansson reunited with co-stars Adam Driver and Miles Teller for the New York Film Festival premiere of “Paper Tiger,” which kicked off the festival’s 64th edition.
\n\n“I’m hallucinating,” said Johansson during the post-screening Q&A at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. She just got off a long international flight from London, where she’s filming “The Batman: Part 2.” “It’s 5 in the morning — which is a great time to be doing an interview on stage.”
\n\n“Paper Tiger” premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival. However, this marked Johansson’s first time watching the movie (at least in a festival setting); she missed the Cannes premiere because she was shooting yet another movie, “The Exorcist: Martyrs.”
\n\n“Don’t rub it in!” Johansson joked about her absence on the French Riviera.
\n\n“Paper Tiger” is set in 1986 and follows two brothers, Irwin and Gary Pearl, whose get-rich-quick scheme to help clean up the Gowanus Canal lands them in the crosshairs of the Russian mafia. Johansson plays Linda, wife of Teller’s character. Gray wanted the film, his first feature since 2022’s period drama “Armageddon Time,” to have an old-school aesthetic.
\n\n“I wanted to make something Hitchcockian,” Gray said. “You always…
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