Marta Balaga 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 McDonald.
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.
I said: ‘Why not?’ Soon after that I saw ‘The Rider,’ loved it, wanted to meet Chloé Zhao and then it all happened. Boom!,” said McDormand about Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction study of the modern-day nomads.
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