Nicole Kidman could shoot with this great French director!

François Ozon is currently in theaters with his 23rd feature film When Autumn Comes.

As François Ozon told us in an interview, it was “Willingness to film older actors“.”I wanted to confront aging, women who are accepting their age, capture their rhythm, capture their gait. Older women are quite invisible in cinema. Perhaps a little less in French cinema, where there are still roles for many older actors. But not so much and often they get younger in movies“, he explains.

and added: “I really wanted to capture the reality of their age and capture the beauty of their conditions. Elena and Josiane accepted, trusted me, and gave up.“

During this interview, François Ozon explains that he was asked by international actors. “Often they are in demand, especially actors in their 40s and 50s who are completely invisible in the United States. With the TV series, it gives a little more role and opportunities, but it is still more difficult than in France“.

We asked which international actresses had already applied for it, and one of them was Nicole Kidman. “There are several. There were projects with Nicole Kidman at one time. There are others, but there is no point in naming them because they have not been done“, he concludes.

Francois Ozon for Blockbuster in the United States, a possible scenario?

Could Francois Ozon be tempted to film in the US? The director had already worked on an English-language film in the early 2000s, in this case Angel with Michael Fassbender. “It wasn’t Hollywood at all. It was an independent film as well as a French film, Franco-English“, he explains.

Will the American blockbuster experience tempt him? “Yes, I had offers at one point, but… I remember what Francois Truffaut said about this. He was also asked a lot by Hollywood. He said, ‘Americans idolize you the way you make films at home. And they destroy you when you work in their system.

We are lucky in France to have extreme freedom as authors. We have Final Cut. In the center of the film is really the author, the director. In the United States, it is a manufacturer. So this is another working logic. Will I be able to integrate into this system when the French system is fully adapted to me? I’m not sure.”

He continues: “So far, I have never felt the desire, even if I am often asked. I don’t know… maybe it’s an experiment. Can be ordered for a movie. At this point, it never made me want to, under any circumstances.“

Comments collected in Vincennes on September 18, 2024