Frances McDormand says she’s always dreamt of hitting the road.She told her husband when she was 45 that she had plans to change her name to Fern when she turns 65 and “start smoking Lucky Strikes, drinking Wild Turkey and I’d hit the road in my Rv.”Her dreams sort of came true with “Nomadland.” The 63-year-old Oscar winner stars in the new Searchlight Pictures as Fern, a woman who lives in her van and joins a community of drifters.
The film, directed by Chloe Zhao, is based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.”Among McDormand’s co-stars are Linda May, Swankie, Bob Wells and Derek Endres, real-life people who live on the road, but portray slightly fictionalized versions of themselves in the movie.The Telluride Film Festival hosted a drive-in screening of “Nomadland” on Friday night at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena,
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