“But it occurs to me, when I made my first Hollywood movie 13 years ago, the statistic on women directors is the same as the statistic is now," she says. When asked about being a female director, "I used to very strongly avoid that question,” she says. Gender equality in Hollywood used to be a topic that irked Caro. "And I went to Niki and I said, ‘Would you be interested in directing a movie like that?’ She goes, ‘(Expletive) yeah! Absolutely!' " “Everyone was talking about superhero films and saying: ‘The problem is, women don’t want to direct those kind of films, they’re not interested,’ " says Chastain. Jessica Chastain, who stars in The Zookeeper’s Wife, the true story of a Polish woman who hid more than 300 Jews during World War II, highlights a common misconception about women directors.
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