With thoroughly unsubstantiated rumors floating around that Scapegoat is possibly about a surgeon performing sketchy operations on a social media influencer, or a sci-fi tinged romance, or even—in perhaps the biggest twist of all for the acclaimed and unpredictable director—a straight drama, Johannson, in an interview with The Los Angeles Times, either isn’t telling or is simply as in the dark as the rest of us. “I don’t know what it is either,” the actor said in a story published on Wednesday. “I’ll have more information for you after a few weeks.”
What is known about the Hereditary director’s fifth feature film is patchy at best. Johannson stars alongside Jude Law, Jacob Elordi, Fallout‘s Ella Purnell, and Saturday Night‘s Corey Michael Smith, while the film’s IMDb page lists other roles such as “giant boyfriend,” “news anchor,” and, most puzzlingly, “stunt grandma” (Is the lady, played by Marie Laine, a stunt performer for a grandmother character, or a grandmother who is a stunt person? There’s no way to know at present.) In pre-production, the film is both written and directed by Aster… and that’s pretty much all the information we have.
All this secrecy is apparently fine with Johannson, who, while claiming to have read Aster’s script, still professes a certain excited confusion about just what the hell she’s doing in the film. As she told the Times, “The script is just so intense. It has this immediacy to it that is really different. I’ve never read anything like it before.” Referencing husband Colin Jost, Johannson concluded her suitably vague hints about the film by noting, “Colin was like, ‘What are you reading?’ Because I kept going, ‘Oh, my God!'”
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