A few years ago, Chloé Zhao had an incredible breakthrough as a filmmaker when she made the 2021 Best Picture winner Nomadland (which she also won Best Director for). Later that year, she released her ambitious superhero movie, Eternals , which unfortunately became one of our lowest MCU entries on our Marvel movies ranking . Zhao hasn’t released a film since, but she’s about to for the first time in four years as the director of the Hamnet movie adaptation .

On the heels of her Shakespeare drama Hamnet coming out among the 2025 movie releases this fall, Chloé Zhao was asked about why she went on a hiatus after Nomadland and Eternals . Here’s what said:

That’s a really good question. I don’t think anyone’s asked me that … I needed a break after Eternals and Nom

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