Scarlett Johansson stunned in an elegant ensemble as she arrived at The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in New York City on Monday. 

The actress, 40, looked incredible in a black strapless midi dress as she waved to the crowd outside. 

The ribbed number by Balmain was cinched in at the waist with a large gold buckle belt and featured a slit up the back. 

Scarlett completed her outfit with a pair of black strappy heels and opted for a red lip for a pop of colour. 

Her appearance on the show comes ahead of the release of her latest film, Eleanor The Great, which she directed and produced. 

Scarlett’s first venture into directing, featuring June Squibb in the main role, garnered significant acclaim during its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, highlighted by a five-minute standing ovation from the audience.

Scarlett Johansson stunned in an elegant ensemble as she arrived at The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in New York City on Monday

The actress, 40, looked incredible in a black strapless midi dress as she waved to the crowd outside

Last week, Scarlett looked back fondly on her time working with Robert Redford in an interview that resurfaced shortly after his death. 

The legendary star was said to have died in his sleep at 89, though a specific cause wasn’t cited.

Scarlett worked with Redford early on in her career, when she was just 13, on 1998’s The Horse Whisperer, which was her seventh feature film.

Redford directed the drama, which went on to be a critical and commercial hit, and he also played the title role.

Scarlett portrayed Grace, a young girl facing severe injuries and trauma after a devastating tractor accident that tragically kills her friend and gravely injures her horse. Meanwhile, Redford plays a ‘horse whisperer’ who agrees to aid in the horse’s recovery, on the condition that Grace joins in the process.

In a 1988 interview with the Today Show, the emerging actress spoke about how Redford was able to connect with her seamlessly due to his expertise as both an actor and director.

‘Working with him was amazing. I think it really helped that he was an actor, as well as a director, because we could communicate so well,’ she said. ‘And I guess you can’t really call it actor talk, that wouldn’t be the right word, but it was just a connection between us.’

Scarlett went on to explain what made Redford such an expert at eliciting a winning performance form her.

The ribbed number by Balmain was cinched in at the waist with a large gold buckle belt and featured a slit up the back

Scarlett completed her outfit with a pair of black strappy heels and opted for a red lip for a pop of colour

Her appearance on the show comes ahead of the release of her latest film, Eleanor The Great, which she directed and produced

It comes after Scarlett looked back fondly on her time working with Robert Redford in an interview that resurfaced shortly after his death early last week (pictured together in 2003)

The legendary star was said to have died in his sleep at 89, though a specific cause wasn’t cited (pictured in 2021 in Monaco)

‘A lot of the times, you get a director who can’t really explain what they want to say to you about what they’re feeling about your character, and it gets very frustrating,’ she shared. ‘But we didn’t have that problem on that set because we could communicate so well, so we understood each other.’

In an later interview with Deadline from May of this year, Johansson looked back on Redford’s skills behind the camera. 

‘He was so actor-focused,’ she said of the Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid star. 

‘He was so patient and would take the time to familiarize me with where my character was at that moment, what happened, where I was coming from in the story. He would tell me the story, the whole story, all the way up until that point.’

‘It was so helpful. It was so insightful, too, because I was also a young actor. I was working on a big film, and a lot was going on, and he would take the time,’ Johansson continued. ‘He created an intimate space in a big, overwhelming production.’

The Horse Whisperer went on to receive some of the best reviews of Redford’s career, and it also became his most successful directorial effort at the box office after grossing $187 million globally against a $60 million budget.

Johansson went on to follow in Redford’s footsteps by also becoming a director.