Elizabeth Olsen, Sheinelle Jones Shared ‘Meaningful’ Moment on Today Show Recently

Elizabeth Olsen shares a sweet moment Today Show host Sheinelle Jones during her appearance on the show.

37-year-old Olsen told hollywood reporter In an interview published Tuesday, November 25, Jones, 47, admitted that she got Olsen’s new lifestyle-themed romantic comedy. eternity It’s heartening to see after the death of her husband Uche Ojeh in May.

“I was on the bus Today show, and Sheinelle (Jones) worked when I was there,” Olsen explained. heartIn response to the outlet’s writer, he said he had watched the film with a woman who had recently lost her husband to cancer. Olsen appeared today’s show on 12 November to promote the film.

“And before I go on, (Jones) said, ‘Not to trivialize it or anything, but I lost my husband earlier this year, and I watched your movie yesterday. I really enjoyed it, and it really created a sense of comfort for me. I really felt kind of healing,'” Olsen said.

“So these are reactions that I don’t normally get with people face-to-face, and you don’t really think about it. You just think about the universality of it. So it’s meaningful to hear that people are having these experiences.”

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Today The show announced on May 23 that Jones’ husband, Ojeh, died at the age of 45 after receiving a glioblastoma (an aggressive form of brain cancer) diagnosis. Jones took an extended leave of absence Today The show returned in late 2024 and in September.

Jones also recently told Wicked: for good Stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande said they found their new film “excellent for me in a way that I didn’t know I needed” after her own family tragedy.

“Seeing these characters be strong and brave and vulnerable. And I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Okay, if these women can do it on screen, I can do it in my own way,'” she told Erivo, 38, and Grande, 32, in an interview that aired the same day as Olsen. Today Show off. “I can be strong, brave and courageous and not only your characters, but who you are as women in real life.”

Olsen starred alongside Miles Teller and Callum Turner eternityWhich “takes place in an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity,” as a synopsis teases. Olsen plays a woman named Joan who is forced to choose between “the man she spent her life with and her first love” after his death.

eternity In theaters now.