Scarlett Johansson exuded confidence on Thursday night at the star-studded 2025 Time100 Gala in New York City.
The five-time Golden Globe nominee, 40, sizzled in a plunging black gown as she braved the red carpet fanfare without husband Colin Jost, 42.
She was decked out in flashy gold jewelry and her dirty blonde hair was worn in a sleek updo.
Johansson was named one of the Most Influential People of 2025 in the Artist category, alongside famous names like Ed Sheeran and Rashida Jones.
She narrowly avoided an uncomfortable encounter with her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds. She arrived just moments before Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively, whose presence on the list has stirred controversy.
There are concerns that Johansson’s significant new career development might be eclipsed by the ongoing legal dispute between Reynolds, Lively, and director Justin Baldoni from It Ends With Us.
Johansson has made her feature directorial debut with a movie called Eleanor The Great, which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month.Â
One of the production companies behind the project is none other than Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios.
Lively has accused Baldoni and Wayfarer CEO Jamey Heath of sexual harassment.
She additionally alleged she was subject to a targeted smear campaign in the run-up to the release of It Ends With Us.
Baldoni then launched a $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and the New York Times, which reported her first claim.
Wayfarer and Baldoni were dropped by their agency amid the mounting drama, which sources close to him say cost him ‘three jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars,’ via THR.
Top Hollywood lawyer Lisa Bloom recently revealed to DailyMail.com how the swirling publicity around the feud could potentially splash back on Johansson’s movie.
‘The success or failure of this Baldoni produced film will be highly relevant in court,’ Bloom observed of Johansson’s new project.
‘If it flops, Baldoni will blame the Blake Lively lawsuit and point to the failure as an example of the millions of dollars in damages he is seeking,’ she noted.
‘If it succeeds, his theory that he just can’t make it in Hollywood because of Blake Lively will be obliterated,’ Bloom added.
‘And expect ScarJo and other big names on the film to be subpoenaed to testify at the Lively-Baldoni trial as to the money he makes from the film, and whether the case really cost him as much as he says.’
The attorney, whose mother is the vaunted feminist lawyer Gloria Allred, said: ‘I also suspect the film’s release will be overshadowed by press questions about the Lively-Baldoni legal fight, which slogs on.’
Reynolds and Johansson married in 2008 and announced their split in 2010, two years before he tied the knot with Lively, with whom he now has four children.
Johansson, who is now married to Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost, has made her feature film directorial debut with Eleanor The Great.
The movie stars 95-year-old June Squibb as the title character, a nonagenarian woman who moves back to New York from Florida after her best friend dies.
With a cast that includes 12 Years A Slave lead Chiwetel Ejiofor, Eleanor The Great is slated to premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May.
Johansson has not publicly addressed the Lively-Baldoni drama, but her husband made a joke about it on Saturday Night Live last month.
During a comic riff on Donald Trump’s explosive Oval Office argument with Volodymyr Zelensky, Jost quipped that the Ukrainian president ‘said he thinks he can still salvage his relationship with President Trump, which is like Justin Baldoni saying: “I’d love to work with Blake again.”‘
