Scarlett Johansson Doesn’t Pick Up FaceTime Call From James Gray During 7-Minute Cannes Standing Ovation for ‘Paper Tiger’

By Ellise Shafer

Ellise Shafer

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Director James Gray tried to call Scarlett Johansson on his cellphone so she could share in the 7-minute standing ovation at the Cannes premiere of “Paper Tiger” on Saturday. But the star didn’t pick up his FaceTime.

Johansson couldn’t be on hand at the South of France because she is filming “The Exorcist” reboot. But her co-stars Miles Teller and Adam Driver, who play brothers who run afoul of the Russian mob in the tragic crime thriller, flanked a boisterous Gray.

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