Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig is apparently looking at three more Sacramento-based movies to direct post-Lady Bird, a film which is nominated in multiple Oscar categories this weekend.
Speaking on the A24 podcast with Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, the actress-turned-filmmaker revealed her plans for future movies with her still very much guiding the action from behind the camera.
“The first thing [I thought about when writing Lady Bird] was that I wanted to make a movie set in Sacramento,” Gerwig said. “I tend to make proclamations out loud cause then I’ll feel the pressure to deliver on them, it’s a very silly way of going about it, but I’d like to make a total of four films that take place there. I’d like to do a quartet of Sacramento films.”
“It’s inspired by Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet,” Gerwig explained. “She wrote these four books that take place mainly in Naples and they’re so great. I thought, ‘Oh, I’d like to do that.’ [‘Lady Bird’] is one part of Sacramento, but there’s a lot of different parts I’d like to explore. I have the inner privilege of being from a place and I’m really from that place. My family didn’t move. My family is still there. My friends are still there. I can actually speak to it with some feeling.”
You can listen to the 40-minute podcast in full below.
Lady Bird is still on general release across the UK.
