June Squibb became a leading lady at 94 when she starred in the 2024 scammer-vengeance comedy Thelma . The job required stuntwork involving a mobile scooter and a gun, and Squibb insisted on performing everything herself. That sort of can-do ethos has guided her long career. Following smaller detours in Inside Out 2, American Horror Stories, and the Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead remake , she’s now appearing in her second eponymous lead role in Eleanor the Great , opening September 26. She plays a spiky retiree who befriends a lonely college student after claiming to be a Holocaust survivor. The movie is Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, and its writer, Tory Kamen, created the character with Squibb in mind . “I always think, no matter what I’m doing, that it

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