Nicole Kidman: ‘I want to work with Scorsese – if he does a film with women’

Nicole Kidman has expressed the desire to work with director Martin Scorsese in a new interview – as well as her scepticism about whether it might happen.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, Kidman said: “I’ve always said I want to work with Scorsese, if he does a film with women.”

Kidman is echoing sentiments expressed by Meryl Streep in 2011, who said: “I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.”

Scorsese, who is 82 this month, is best known for his collaborations with A-list male actors such as Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis.

However he broke through with a number of films featuring women in leading or significant roles, including Boxcar Bertha (1972) and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974). His 1993 Edith Wharton adaptation, The Age of Innocence, featured a number of significant parts for actors such as Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder, while last year’s Killers of the Flower Moon won considerable acclaim for its female lead, Lily Gladstone.

The director is currently promoting a number of TV projects, including a docudrama series examining the lives of the saints, among them John the Baptist and Joan of Arc.

Production is currently paused on his film projects – biographical films about Frank Sinatra and Jesus – although Scorsese has denied plans to retire, saying: “I’m not saying goodbye to cinema at all … I still have more films to make, and I hope God gives me the strength to make them.”

Kidman, 57, is currently an Oscars frontrunner for her performance as a high-ranking CEO in Manhattan who starts a submissive relationship with a young male intern, played by Harris Dickinson. She won the best actress award at the Venice film festival for her performance in Babygirl, but was unable to pick up the prize due to the sudden death of her mother.

Her key awards competition this year includes Angelina Jolie, for a biopic of Maria Callas, Tilda Swinton for Pedro Almodovar’s euthanasia drama The Room Next Door, Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her latest Mike Leigh collaboration, Hard Truths, and Cynthia Erivo for the musical Wicked, which opens next week.