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The
Lost in Translation and
On the Rocks director confessed recently that she “can’t watch movies that don’t have any female characters in it.”
Any of them? That’s a lot of masterpieces.
The 49-year-old director’s admission came amid a broader discussion with fellow filmmaker Emerald Fennell.
“I would work with [actress Carey Mulligan] again in a heartbeat,” said Fennell, referring to her experience working on the set of the 2020 dark comedy
Promising Young Woman, “but weirdly, and I don’t know if it’s subconsciously deliberate, I don’t think the main thing I’m writing now has anything she could [do] as it has no women ”