Nicole Kidman Worked With 19 Female Directors in Eight Years After Vowing to Do So: Things Only Change ‘By Actually Being in the Films of Women’

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  1. >Nicole Kidman made a vow in 2017 to work with a woman director every 18 months. To say she has made good on that promise would be an understatement. The Oscar winner has teamed up with a women director either as a producer and/or actor 19 times over the last eight years, with more female-directed projects already in the pipeline.

    >Speaking in a new interview with Time magazine, Kidman explained that one of her reasons behind making the vow is a double standard that women directors face. These filmmakers are under pressure to “be perfect” when their movies get funded and there’s no room for error. Whereas male directors are more likely to get a chance to rebound, female directors are knocked down if they don’t deliver a perfect movie.

    >“It can be changed,” Kidman said, “but it can only be changed by actually being in the films of women.”

  2. Love it, love her, begging her people to get that horse tail off her head 🙏

  4. She is part of a great marriage that makes her very happy. I love everything about her.

  5. She has the liberty to do that, it’s cool AF but if you’re and actor just trying to pay bills you’re taking weird German sex guy money.

  8. Someone who puts their money where their mouth is. 
    I respect it.

  9. Someone who puts their money where their mouth is. 
    I respect it.

  10. Love her. Natalie Portman called out the Oscars for not nominating female directors one year and wore this hideous cape dress thing in nod of the female directors snubbed. Mind you, she never even worked with a female director throughout her whole career

  11. not only did she talk the talk, she walked the walk. which is unfortunately a lot more than most people

  13. In many cases I don’t have to think people will be able to make changes with their actions, but it’s good to see them stick to their words

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