“I assumed when I was growing up that I would always work,” she said. “I never thought, This will be my last project. I guess when you’re a kid you’re ignorant. As I got older, I started to think, This will definitely be my last. I would like to direct. I’d be happy to work behind the camera, forever.”
She is developing a film based on a Truman Capote novella called Summer Crossing. Set in the late 1940s, it’s the tale of a Waspy 17-year-old New Yorker whose parents are leaving for their summer crossing to France. The heroine decides to stay behind and has an affair with a parking-lot attendant who is a few years older and happens to be Jewish.
“It’s about that first love you have that’s sort of vicious, in a sense,” Johansson explained.
Though she doesn’t plan to star in it herself, she remains confident she can get financing, recognizing that “it’s a hard sell because it’s a period film, it takes place in New York, and there’s no room for a big name. We’ll see. Fingers crossed.”
I hope Scarlett doesn't give up acting for directing, though I must admit I'm so curious to see hwat she has to offer behind the camera because she didn't chose really good projects as an actres lately. Fingers crossed too then!
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