'Eleanor The Great' script made Scarlett Johansson tear up

The 40-year-old actress is stepping behind the camera as she takes on the role of director for the upcoming drama - which follows a year-old Floridian woman (played by June Squibb ) as she forms an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old student (played by Erin Kellyman) in New York City, and could see a "great possibility" in the emotional screenplay that reminded her of films made in decades gone by, reports 'Female First UK'.

She told 'Deadline', "When I read it, I cried, and that almost never happens. Sometimes you'll read a script that's really moving. When I read 'Jojo Rabbit', I cried. Sometimes a script will move you like that, which is extraordinary".

"I could see there was a great possibility in it. I thought, 'Oh, actually, I think I could tell this story.' It reminded me so much of independent film from the mid to late '90s. I was a kid of the '90s. I was working in independent film at that time, and I watched a lot of movies in that period of time that were throughout the '90s into the early aughts, like 'Crossing Delancey' and movies like that I loved as a kid. Richard LaGravenese made a great movie called Living Out Loud, and then certain Woody Allen movies from that period of time, too, that are films that I gravitate toward as just a fan", she added.

As per 'Female First UK', the 'Black Widow' star.then recalled that she had been put on such a tight schedule to get the film made but felt "so lucky" when two major production compies got involved.

She said, "I got the script in August, and I was like, 'We have to make it this winter'. That was very stressful, like crazy, crazy stressful. It fell apart a thousand different times. I don't want to say I'm a film snob, but I love Sony Pictures Classics. The idea of working with TriStar was amazing, it was perfect. I couldn't have asked for better partners than Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar. Nicole Brown, our executive at TriStar, is incredible, a dream executive. I was lucky".