Nicole Kidman was not too long ago honored with the AFI Life Achievement prize and delivered a shifting acceptance speech by name-dropping each director she’s labored with through the years. Her listing included huge names like Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sofia Coppola, and extra.
Nonetheless, in a latest interview with Vainness Honest, The Excellent Couple actress revealed the filmmakers she would like to collaborate with sooner or later. “I’ve at all times stated I wish to work with [Martin] Scorsese if he does a movie with girls,” the actress joked.
She additionally talked about names like Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Jones, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Michael Haneke. Kidman additionally admitted that she’s open to working with budding filmmakers. “there’s so many, and I’m at all times open to the invention of recent individuals,” she added.
The actress defined that watching a filmmaker’s trajectory evolve by way of fixed onerous work and energy is thrilling. Kidman has labored with administrators who’ve actually hit their stride in recent times after overcoming tough patches.
The actress revealed that director Karyn Kusama was one among them. Regardless of feeling pissed off over the dearth of alternatives to create one thing intriguing, she finally discovered her strategy to extra important tasks. “I labored with Karyn Kusama on ‘Destroyer,’ and she or he’s gone on to ‘Yellowjackets’ and so many huge issues now,” Kidman added.
Though Scorsese is on her dream listing of administrators she’d wish to work with, she’s inclined towards working with a female-heavy solid and has confirmed her intention by engaged on reveals like Huge Little Lies. Scorsese is understood to headline male-dominated movies however has tried to make movies with girls on the forefront.
His 1974 drama Alice Doesn’t Dwell Right here Anymore, led by Ellen Burstyn, could possibly be counted as one, and his latest Oscar-nominated flick Killers of the Flower Moon, which had a large position for Lily Gladstone alongside male co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
Nonetheless, the movie he was most criticized for was The Irishman due to Anna Paquin’s diminished position. All through the three-and-a-half-hour film, she solely had a single-line dialogue, which the director later claimed to be a deliberate alternative.