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Nicole Kidman has an inventory of administrators she’d like to work with, and Martin Scorsese is one in all them. There’s only one drawback.
Chatting with Self-importance Honest in a Q&A printed on Wednesday, November 13, Kidman, 57, threw some shade Scorsese’s method for his historical past of writing movies centered fully on male characters.
“I’ve at all times mentioned I wish to work with [Martin] Scorsese, if he does a movie with ladies,” mentioned Kidman.
Kidman didn’t elaborate additional, however it’s clear what she was saying. Scorsese, 81, has come below hearth up to now for a scarcity of feminine illustration in his work, from Goodfellas (1990) to The Wolf of Wall Road (2013).
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The Moulin Rouge actress isn’t the one one to name out Scorsese on the problem. Her Large Little Lies costar Meryl Streep held nothing again in a 2011 interview with The Talks.
“I would really like Martin Scorsese to be keen on a feminine character from time to time, however I don’t know if I’ll reside that lengthy,” she mentioned. (13 years later, Scorsese and Streep have but to work collectively.)
In equity to Scorsese, one in all his most up-to-date initiatives, Killers of the Flower Moon, featured Lily Gladstone as a feminine lead. Gladstone gained the 2024 Golden Globe for Greatest Actress in a Movement Image Drama for her portrayal of Osage Indian murders survivor Mollie Burkhart.
The legendary filmmaker has heard the shortage of feminine leads criticism earlier than. In 2019, on the heels of his three-hour-plus film The Irishman, an Italian reporter requested him why his motion pictures hardly ever characteristic ladies with attention-grabbing narratives.
“If the story doesn’t name for it, it’s a waste of all people’s time,” he responded.
Although it’s been over for many years, Nicole Kidman’s marriage to Tom Cruise remains to be one in all Hollywood’s most-talked about relationships. Whereas the 9 Good Strangers star has grown to maintain her personal life out of the highlight, issues have been totally different when she wed Cruise in 1990. “I used to be younger. I feel I provided it up?” […]
Kidman, for her half, didn’t simply use her Self-importance Honest interview to diss Scorsese. She shouted out Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Jonze, Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Haneke as administrators she want to work with. She additionally elaborated on how she would like to work extra with business newcomers.
“There’s a complete slew of recent up-and-coming administrators — there’s so many, and I’m at all times open to the invention of recent individuals,” she mentioned. “And I discover it actually thrilling once you go, ‘Right here’s somebody that’s so skilled and has been working and dealing, however they’ve now actually hit their stride.’”
Kidman later opened up about her historical past of working with feminine administrators, notably on the 2024 Netflix miniseries The Good Couple and the upcoming movie Babygirl.
“I’m making an attempt to assist all of those ladies in any respect totally different ages, in any respect totally different levels of their careers, put my weight behind them and go, ‘I’m right here and I’m at your disposal and I’m prepared,’” she mentioned of starring in initiatives by Susanne Bier and Halina Reijn, respectively.