It’s not easy for a Marvel star to avoid being the center of attention, but Scarlett Johansson seemed to be using every ounce of her being to step out of the spotlight — even as an entire theater rose to applaud her entrance at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday afternoon.

"Yeah, definitely, it could be, it would be fun," Scarlett Johansson said of potentially directing a major action movie or Marvel Cinematic Universe film

CANNES, France — Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great,” stars June Squibb as a 94-year-old woman who, out of grief and loneliness, does a terrible thing.