Nicole Kidman says she wants to work with Martin Scorsese 'if he does a film with women'

The "Goodfellas" and "Wolf of Wall Street" director is known for films exploring male-dominated spaces.

Nicole Kidman has worked with a long list of iconic directors throughout her career, but her wish list of who she still wants to collaborate with includes Martin Scorsese — as long as they can get on the same page about one thing.

"I've always said I want to work with Scorsese, if he does a film with women," Kidman said in a new interview with Vanity Fair. She added, "I'd love to work with Kathryn Bigelow. I'd love to work with Spike Jonze. I'd love to work with PTA [Paul Thomas Anderson]. I've always wanted to work with Michael Haneke. And there's a whole slew of new up-and-coming directors — there's so many, and I’m always open to the discovery of new people."

Though Kidman didn't elaborate on her remark about Scorsese, the director has been criticized in the past for the depictions and dearth of female characters in his movies.

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While Scorsese is known for films that feature largely male casts and explore male-dominated spaces — such as Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, and The Irishman — he has also made movies with indelible female characters, most recently Killers of the Flower Moon, which starred Lily Gladstone opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Gladstone went on to win a Golden Globe and was nominated at the Oscars for her work in the film. In 1974, Scorsese also directed the female-led Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, starring Ellen Burstyn, who earned an Oscar nod for her performance.

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Scorsese for comment on Kidman's remark.

Back in 1991, Scorsese defended his male-heavy filmography in a conversation with EW. "The films I'm dealing with have often been about men's worlds, where the women seem to be adjuncts," he said. "I think the women in Goodfellas and Raging Bull are very strong. But they're not in the ring. In general, I have to be true to the society in which a story operates. I don't think it's right to overbalance it just for the sake of trying to be politically correct."

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In Kidman's Vanity Fair interview, she spoke further about the kinds of filmmakers she likes to work with. "I find it really exciting when you go, 'Here's someone that's so experienced and has been working and working, but they've now really hit their stride,'" she said. "I worked with Karyn Kusama on Destroyer, and she's gone on to Yellowjackets and so many big things now. She was at a point where she was frustrated and not getting the things made that she wanted and wasn't having the opportunities."

And while the Babygirl actress knows she's "worked with some of the greatest" directors throughout her career, she doesn't necessarily need to work with female directors over male ones.

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"I feel intimacy with most directors that I work with," Kidman said. "I move in very quickly. I'm very open, which is why I just have to be careful how I choose. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's really the best way to approach anything. But yeah, I'm trying to support all of these women at all different ages, at all different stages in their careers, put my weight behind them and go, 'I'm here and I'm at your disposal and I'm ready.'"