Nomadland
As acclaimed road movie Nomadland debuts on Disney+, can FRANCES MCDORMAND win a third Oscar?
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Frances Mcdormand has been Oscar-nominated for her role as a woman who’s on the move through the American West after losing everything in the recession.
‘There are so many people on the road now, because of the economic situation’
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WITH SIX NOMINATIONS, including
Best Picture, Nomadland is one of the movies tipped to win big at this year’s Academy Awards on Sunday – and UK viewers will be able to give their own verdict when the film arrives on Disney+ on Friday 30 April.
Nomadland is the story of Fern, played by Frances Mcdormand – who won the Best Actress Oscar in 1997 for Fargo and again in 2018 for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri. When Fern loses her job after the death of her husband, she buys a van, leaves Nevada and travels the US in search of work, crossing paths with a community of modern-day nomads along the way. Here, Mcdormand, 63, tells us more…
WILL VIEWERS BE SURPRISED TO SEE THIS
COMMUNITY OF NOMADS? There are so many people on the road now, because of the economic situation, but also because they are answering to their wanderlust. It’s a huge part of what’s happening all over the world. There’s a disparity between the haves and have-nots.
HOW DID DIRECTOR CHLOÉ
ZHAO MAKE Nomadland
SEEM SO AUTHENTIC? Filming Nomadland was a challenge because it was a hybrid of non-professionals from the real-life nomad community, as well as professional actors, including David Strathairn [who plays Fern’s fellow nomad Dave]. I hadn’t worked with a mostly non-professional cast, so we all had to adjust and find a comfortable balance. IS IT TRUE YOU WORKED IN FERN’S
TEMPORARY JOBS AS SHE TRAVELS THE US? I worked alongside the actual workforce at an Amazon centre, a sugarbeet harvesting plant, and in the cafeteria of a tourist attraction. In most cases, I was not recognised as anyone other than another worker. Of course, I didn’t really work the hours that are required at these jobs.
But we did try to give the impression of real work and its consequences.