Scarlett Johansson reveals sweet nickname for Robert Redford

Scarlett Johansson still recalls the late Robert Redford with a lovely nickname she gave him.

On the Monday, Sept. 22, episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Johansson appeared to promote her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great.

The two-time Oscar nominee recalled working with Redford, who died at 89 on Sept. 16, in 1998's The Horse Whisperer, which she filmed with the actor-director when she was just 12 years old.

"I actually had a nickname for him that was Booey,” Johansson revealed, “which is something that I don't think I've ever told anybody, but now I've told everyone."

When Colbert asked her reason for calling Redford “Booey,” she replied, "I don't know. I mean, I was 12."

"He was such a warm, kind, patient, generous, wonderful man,” Johansson added. “He would take so much time with me every day — he was the director, so I got to work with him as an actor, which was extraordinary, and he was just so warm. We had a very special relationship in the film.”

Just four years after making her big-screen debut in 1994’s North, Johansson landed her seventh film role with The Horse Whisperer.

Johansson's directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, hits theatres on Sept. 26.

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