Paper Tiger Opens the 64th New York Film Festival, Jet Lag and All
Variety reports that Scarlett Johansson reunited with co-stars Adam Driver and Miles Teller for the New York Film Festival premiere of “Paper Tiger,” which opened the festival's 64th edition. Johansson had just stepped off a long international flight, where she is filming another movie, and told the room she was “hallucinating.” Not the usual opening-night line, but a recognisable one for anyone who has ever landed and been handed a microphone.
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An opening-night slot is a scheduling achievement as much as an artistic one. The star who can physically get there on no sleep gets the microphone.
The slot is still a choice worth reading: it is the film a festival puts forward to represent its 64th edition, not merely the cast that could clear its calendar.
Both can be true, which is why a quote about hallucinating will outrun the premiere itself.