has given her take on working with filmmaker for the first time as a live actor on set, calling it ‘intense’ as Anderson creates such a specific environment with his movies.
The pair previously collaborated on 2018, in which the Marvel star voiced Nutmeg, alongside the likes of , Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton and Jeff Goldblum.
, which on Tuesday night, she plays actress Midge Campbell, part of a group of individuals that end up visiting the Junior Stargazer convention in the desert town with a population of 87, which is then rocked by an visitation.
She told Metro.co.uk and other titles at the film’s press conference in Cannes on Wednesday: ‘It’s intense. It’s funny because of course the world is sort of there, you’re in it. The whole environment is created.
‘This is my only experience of working with Wes as a live actor and not as a dog. But they very much create the whole environment, it’s a physical, tangible, useable space.’
Discussing the big difference between Anderson’s set and others in Hollywood, Johansson pointed out the similarities with theatre, which fits into the film’s slightly confusing play-within-a-TV-show-within-a-movie aspect, as well as how he has managed to cut out ‘downtime’.
‘In a way it’s kind of more like doing theatre because you have the whole tangible space and it’s not the familiar process of being on a soundstage and going back to your trailer, and all this downtime and all that stuff that just eats up the momentum – which is just part of the process [and] there’s not much you can do about it – but somehow Wes has avoided that.’
The 38-year-old was full of praise for the ‘vibrant’ way of working too, calling it ‘very fulfilling and exciting’.
She is joined in the cast by long-time Anderson collaborator Jason Schwartzman, who made his film debut 25 years ago in Anderson’s Rushmore, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Jeffrey Wright, Maya Hawke and many others.
Anderson has recently gone viral online (sort of) after a YouTube account started posting trailers  in his style, sparking a fierce fan debate, while TikTok has also been enjoying a bit of a moment with him too .
Asteroid City will be released in UK cinemas on June 23.
