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:
