Nicole Kidman has called out Martin Scorsese for the lack of female perspective in his films with elegant simplicity. The actress, 57, shared which directors she hopes to work with someday, listing Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Jonze, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Michael Haneke as dream collaborators. She also said she’d love to work with Scorsese, but pointed out his preference for casting male leads and telling stories with undeniably masculine perspectives.
The director, who has won one Academy Award and been nominated 16 times, tends to work with actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Daniel Day-Lewis – and rarely casts A-list actresses. Kidman told Vanity Fair: ‘I’ve always said I want to work with [Martin] Scorsese, if he does a film with women.’ She’s not the first supremely talented actress to point out the gender disparity in Scorsese’s work, with Meryl Streep expressing a similar view in a 2011 interview.
‘I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long,’ she said. Indeed, Scorsese’s films frequently depict women being affected by the actions of men but rarely portray female characters as dynamic and autonomous in their own right. Kidman, who won the Venice Film Festival’s Volpi Cup for best actress for her upcoming film Babygirl, is known for playing psychologically complex characters who tend to be the driving force of the narrative.
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