Who are Martin Scorsese and Greta Gerwig's on screen muses? The directors reveal all:
provided a fresh slate for the writer-director to collaborate with her muses, Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet. Ronan, who stars as the titular Lady Bird in Gerwig's Oscar-nominated feature, plays writer Jo March in this year's adaptation of the classic American novel. At a DGA Q&A, the actress revealed that Gerwig's structuring of the story's scenes freed her up to "fuck it up a bit" on set.
The actor shared that the director had him and Ronan swap clothes during filming as a kind of acting exercise, and joked that his requests to incorporate eccentric elements into the wardrobe were declined. At a Summit, Gerwig said that she views the two characters as each other's androgynous twin. "Laurie is a boy with a girl's name and Jo is a girl with a boy's name," she explained. "He was always the person to play this part for me because he's beautiful.
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