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What Frances McDormand Would (and Wouldn’t) Give to ‘Nomadland’ – The New York Times
The acclaimed film required her to draw from a life she prefers to keep private. So when the director asked to cast her family, too, the star pondered whether to…
That was the hook, McDormand said. It was the power of being a really shy, slightly suspect seventh-grader who could stand in front of a group of people and keep their attention. She loved, too, that Shakespeares female characters were as power-hungry as the men: Its like I used to say to Joel, Why dont you guys write better roles for women? In fact, why dont you just write a role for men and then let me play it?
She had married Coen not long after making her screen debut in the 1984 noir Blood…
