During the Hollywood strike, cult screenwriter and director Paul Schrader reveals that he has written a film that promises to be very explicit.
From 1974 to the present, Paul Schrader has written only 27 feature film scripts. But frankly, when some are Taxi Driver’, ‘Raging Bull, or The Last Temptation of Christ, you get a free pass to do whatever you want. It’s like I only painted it three times, but one of them came out of the Sistine Chapel. But now the writer-director, who was nominated for a first-time Oscar in 2019 for First Reformed, is 76 and clear enough to know what he can and can’t direct.
Sex! And now that I have your attention, sex!
Schrader, currently on strike and with a somewhat sarcastic view of the issue (“Writers don’t lose their jobs. Trust me, no keyboardist in Hollywood has ever stopped working overnight. They’re working as we speak, and when the strike is over, there will be plenty of scripts.”) told The New Yorker that there is a script he has written that will never be called “RN”.
It is the first time he has chosen a woman as the protagonist, more precisely a trauma nurse from Puerto Rico. Normally you’re told to write about what you know, but Schrader decided to make a film about that. “female sexual irresponsibility, especially behaviors that cause problems”. At the very least, he’s stated that he won’t be behind the camera for obvious reasons.
“I thought, ‘This is really good.’ But there’s a lot of explicit sex and masturbation. I’m an older man. How am I going to do that? It’s not my field. There are a lot of female directors, it’s not like a few decades ago, when there were only two or three. I feel totally out of place, like I’m at Spike Lee’s house telling him how to redecorate. So I decided against it.”
That doesn’t mean he threw the script away: he offered it to Elisabeth Moss to direct and star in. It would be the first foray into feature film for the actress, who has so far directed only six episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale and two of Iluminadas. Hey, who knows? If Elizabeth Banks has gone from starring in big-budget films like The Hunger Games to directing films like White Dust Bear, anything is possible.
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