TORONTO (AP) — There are 70-year-olds who want to be like June Squibb when they grow up.

Squibb, 95, wasn’t the lead of a movie until she was 94. Now, a year after she turned action star in “Thelma,” Squibb is again the leading lady and face on the poster again, for “Eleanor the Great,” Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut. With it, Squibb is proving, again, that Hollywood stardom needn’t belong to the young.

“I think a lot of that is because I never stopped,” Squibb says with a chuckle. “And it never occurred to me at 90 that I was supposed to say ‘No, I can’t work anymore!’”

Film festivals can be taxing on people half of Squibb’s age. But in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, Squibb was more chipper than most. She had also traveled with the f

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