Some of the biggest names in Hollywood attended the Cannes Film Festival throughout the week, including a special appearance of the legendary actress June squibb.
The 95 -year -old actress did not allow her age to prevent her from continuing her career, appearing Scarlett Johansson Director start, Eleanor the Great.
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The film – with also Chiwetel Ejiofor And Erin Kellyman—The standing up of five minutes at the French event, while he wins an early buzz for the powerful scenario and the intergenerational cast.
THE Good girls The actress also turned her head as she abandoned her wheelchair to walk on the red carpet alongside Johannson and Kellyman.
Putting on a colored floral kimono with black pants, the emblematic actress used a cane while she was putting for photos, holding her hand with her casting comrades for additional support. While attending the screening of the film the day before, Squibb opted for a black floral dress.
Cannes, France – May 21: Erin Kellyman, June Squibb and Scarlett Johansson pose during the photocall “Eleanor the Great” during the 78th Cannes Annual Cannes Festival at Palais Festivals on May 21, 2025 in Cannes, in France. (Photo by Tristan Finings / Getty Images)
By VarietyJohansson said that the first of the film in Cannes is “really a dream come true”, adding that it is a film “on friendship, it’s a question of sorrow, it is forgiveness. And I think these are all the themes that we can use many more of these days.”
The dramatic play finds Squibb as the title of eponymous title, which goes from Florida to New York for a new start after the death of its best friend and learns that “to make new friends at ninety years is difficult”.
“Looking at connection, she became friends with a 19 -year -old student,” notes the synopsis.
As for what Squibb thinks of its status in industry, it has already said The Hollywood Reporter“If my name is” icon “once again, I will cry”, noting that attention becomes a little ridiculous sometimes: “A 70 year old man will say:” I want to be you when I am big! “”
Squibb began his career with the beginnings in Broadway Gypsy In 1959, was nominated for an Oscars for the best support actress in 2013 for the film Nebraskaand won his leading first role in an action comedy last year Thelma.
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