Scarlett Johansson remembered in an interview with Vanity Fair her career getting pigeonholed by “sex object” roles after the breakout success of Sofia Coppola’s 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” which cast a 17-year-old Johansson opposite Bill Murray.

Those bonds were key given that the Scarlett Johansson-directed film hinges on the friendship shared by Squibb’s Eleanor and Kellyman’s Nina, an American journalism student who strikes up a friendshi...

“I think life has humbled him,” she says.