A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changes Scarlett Johansson has said she was pressed to remove Holocaust references in her feature directing debut Eleanor the Great , which stars June Squibb as an elderly woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph , Johansson said that during the film’s pre-production phase, one of the film’s backers threatened to pull out unless the plot elements relating to the Holocaust were cut out. Continue reading...