Juliette Binoche; Steven Spielberg.Photo: Gerald Matzka/Getty; Mike Coppola/Getty
Juliette Binochesays she would “of course” work withSteven Spielberg, but she thinks he’s “more of a men’s director.”
TheParadise Highwaystar, 58, toldVarietyin an interview published Wednesday that she has had three opportunities to work with the famed filmmaker, 75, but had to turn them down due to other commitments.
“The first time was for Indiana Jones [and the Last Crusade], because I was doingThe Lovers on the Bridgewith Leos Carax,” the French actress recalled. “The second time, forSchindler’s List, I was pregnant, and then for the dinosaurs (Jurassic Park), I had already committed to [Krzysztof Kieślowski’s]Three Colors: Blue.”
“It would have been amusing to doJurassic Parkto see how [Spielberg] makes the film, but at the same time, Spielberg is more of a men’s director, like[Martin] Scorseseactually,” Binoche added.
Reps for Spielberg and Scorsese declined PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Binoche insisted in her interview withVarietythat “of course” she would be open to working with either Spielberg or Scorsese, 79, in the future.
“Even if I find their approach to cinema to be very commercial, they have a fabulous technique which they own completely, and there’re storytellers,” she said. “But their films lack women.”
Spielberg has directed more than 30 films over the course of his career, including standouts like theIndiana Jonesfranchise,E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,Jurassic Park,Close Encounters of the Third Kind,Hook,Saving Private Ryanand his breakout horror flickJaws. His Oscar-nominated classicThe Color Purplefeatured a mostly female cast, includingOprah Winfreyand Whoopi Goldberg.
Most recently, Spielberg directed the remake ofWest Side Story, which earnedAriana DeBose, who played Anita, her firstAcademy Award. The movie musical was up for a total of seven Oscars.
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As for continuing the long-lasting franchise, the three-time Oscar winner said the fifthIndiana Jonesfilm,due out next summer, “will be Harrison Ford’s last Indiana Jones movie, I am pretty sure, but it will certainly continue after that.”
“We’d have to change the name from Jones to Joan. And there would be nothing wrong with that,” Spielberg added.
Martin Scorsese.Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
Oscar winner Scorsese, meanwhile, is famous for films likeGoodfellas,Gangs of New York,The Departed,The Wolf of Wall Streetand, more recently,The Irishman.
As noted in a 2020Vanity Fairpiece, Scorsese has directed 10 actresses who have gone on to be nominated for Academy Awards for their roles in his movies, includingWinona Ryder,Cate BlanchettandSharon Stone.
Scorsese responded in 2019 to claims of gender inequality in his films during an Italian press conference forThe Irishman, saying, according toThe Hollywood Reporter, “That’s a question that I’ve had for so many years. Am I supposed to? If the story doesn’t call for it, then it’s a waste of everybody’s time. If the story calls for a female character lead, why not?”
And while he said he’d “like to” include more female character leads in his films, Scorsese added, “I’m 76 now. How am I going to have the time? I don’t know what’s going to happen. We don’t know. I don’t have time anymore.”
source: people.com
