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Chloé Zhao was the second woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Director, for her 2020 film “ Nomadland .” After taking a wide turn to create the Marvel supernatural epic “ Eternals ,” Zhao has taken another intriguing change of direction with “ Hamnet ,” based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about how William Shakespeare coped with the death of his only son. In conversation with the New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman , Zhao discusses the role that nature plays in her filmmaking, from the American West to the forests of Britain; the process of adapting manga to film; and how neurodivergence informs her creative process

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