Boxoffice Pro - Winter 2020

“She’s being sympathetic.
She knows what I want in
the scene. She knows where
her character should be.
So she’s really reacting.”
—Chloé Zhao
would also stay sometimes in her van,
and Chloé as well. Camping with the
folks we were working with. We really
were embedded amongst them.” The
tables turned sometime later, when
Nomadland had its Los Angeles premiere
at the Telluride Film Festival. A typical
stop on the film festival calendar for
award hopefuls, Telluride canceled its
2020 film festival but hosted a special
“Telluride from Los Angeles” screening for
Nomadland, with several of its subjects/
stars in attendance. “I think they were
very moved by the experience,” says
Spears. “They came up onstage and spoke
afterwards to the people there.” Getting
the theatrical experience from their cars,
the festivalgoers honked their horns and
flashed their lights in a show of support
for the film and its co-stars, who “spoke
very eloquently about their experiences
both in the movie and [outside] of the
movie. It’s an experience all of us there
won’t ever forget.”
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