[Interview] Chloé Zhao on the film "Hamnet" and Shakespeare: "Stories are not something we can control"
Tokyo Art Beat
Director Chloé Zhao discusses the film "Hamnet" and Shakespeare, sharing her approach to storytelling.Summary
In this interview, Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao discusses the film "Hamnet," which depicts the background of "Hamlet" from the perspective of Shakespeare's wife, Agnes. Although she initially intended to decline the project, a series of coincidences, including meeting actor Paul Mescal, resonating with the novel, and her own personal traumas related to motherhood, led her to accept. Zhao views stories not as something humans control but as entities with their own life, emphasizing an archaeological creative process of pursuing their "traces." She expresses her belief that "stories choose me."
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)