Her name doesn’t carry much weight these days. I’m surprised that it got cut let alone the early mixed reviews it received through festivals and such.

Sometimes, actors-turned-directors often bring in bad ideas because it makes it seem like a vanity thing. Though she wasn’t in the short, I think some producers began to consider its audience and it’s likely that a huge majority won’t be interested in a short directed by Scarlett Johansson.

This is a film project that’s geared mostly towards art house audiences and Scarlett hasn’t been art house since “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Those audiences won’t be interested in seeing it so in a way, they were trying to save face from a project that could’ve been bad based on a few shorts.