Martin Scorsese, it’s time to get to work writing a movie about a wealthy white women with secrets. No more films with Leonardo DiCaprio, no more De Niro, and no more Jesus movies — unless it focuses on one of the Marys. Nicole Kidman wants to claim Scorsese for the girls. “I’ve always said I want to work with [Martin] Scorsese,” she told Vanity Fair in a November 13 interview, “if he does a film with women.” We can feel Film Twitter shaking at this comment already. Of course, there’s Sharon Stone in Casino, Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street, or, most recently, Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon, but the bulk of his work focuses on the perils of committing crime while male. None of his recent works — The Irishman, The Departed, nor Killers — have parts that Kidman could have played.
Since her career got off to the races in the mid-’90s with movies like To Die For (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1996), the only Scorsese movie with multiple solid, Kidman-level parts for women was 2004’s The Aviator — which including Cate Blanchett’s Oscar-winning portrayal of Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. Kidman said she wanted to do a movie of his that has “women,” not “woman,” and, despite being the person who directed Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, he just hasn’t written anything fit for the actress throughout the majority of her career. But now that she’s got his attention …