Joining the press conference of “Nomadland” via Zoom on Friday, presented in Venice in the main competition before its Toronto bow, director Chloé Zhao and Frances McDormand – “It’s McDormand, not …
” via Zoom on Friday, presented in Venice in the main competition before its Toronto bow, director Chloé Zhao and Frances McDormand – “It’s McDormand,M-C-D-O-R-M-A-N-D. It’s difficult, but you will get used to it,” she said, correcting a journalist as she started from the very beginning. “A friend of mine, [producer] Peter Spears, sent me the book and asked if we should option it.
“It was really about setting up an ecosystem, working with the nomads, because they are not always stationary and getting Fran to blend in,” agreed Zhao, currently at work on “Eternals.” Able to meet many people through Bruder’s book, the community proved welcoming to the team. “Once we had her blessing, that was our way in. And then, who wouldn’t want to work with Fran? People were just surprised we wanted to tell their story and Fran treated them like the biggest movie stars.”
While, as pointed out, vandwellers’ choices have a lot to do with the economic disparities in the country, politics were never discussed. “That’s my third time going into a community that’s not my own, trying to convince people to share their lives with me. Talking about politics is not a way in,” pointed out Zhao. “It’s more about talking about the things that relate us instead of things that potentially divide us.
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