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 included in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People of 2025 under the Artist section along with the likes of Ed Sheeran and Rashida Jones.
She narrowly narrowly avoided an awkward run-in with her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds as she arrived just moments before him and his wife Blake Lively, whose inclusion in the Most Influential People of 2025 list has sparked major backlash.
It comes amid fears that Johansson’s major new career move could be ‘overshadowed’ by her ex Reynolds and Lively’s legal war with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni.
Scarlett Johansson exuded confidence on Thursday night at the star-studded 2025 Time100 Gala in New York City
Johansson has made her feature directorial debut with a movie called Eleanor The Great, which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
One of the production companies behind the project is none other than Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios.
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Lively has accused Baldoni and Wayfarer CEO Jamey Heath of Sєxual harᴀssment.
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.
Johansson was included in the Time 100 list of the Most Influential People of 2025 under the Artist section along with the likes of Ed Sheeran and Rashida Jones
She narrowly narrowly avoided an awkward run-in with her ex-husband Ryan Reynolds as she arrived just moments before him and his wife Blake Lively, whose inclusion in the Most Influential People of 2025 list has sparked major backlash
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
It comes amid fears that Johansson’s directorial film debut could be ‘overshadowed’ by her ex Reynolds and Lively’s legal war with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni
Inside the gala, Johansson was seen making her way around Lincoln Center on the arm of her longtime CAA agent Joe MacH๏τa
She was later seen mingling with Serena Williams
She put on an animated display while chatting up the tennis champ
‘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.
One of the production companies behind the project is none other than Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios, which has also been pulled into the Lively legal battle; Justin Baldoni seen in 2024
Lively has accused Baldoni and Wayfarer CEO Jamey Heath of Sєxual harᴀssment. She additionally alleged she was subject to a targeted smear campaign in the run-up to the release of It Ends With Us; Baldoni and Lively seen in It Ends With Us (2024)
The movie stars 95-year-old June Squibb as the тιтle 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.”‘
