The Nomadland journey actually dates back well before that March 2018 meeting. At the center is McDormand’s Fern, a woman left destitute by America’s throwaway attitude toward the aged, and her relationship with the road. The cast comprised a few professional actors like David Strathairn, McDormand’s longtime neighbor, mixed in with the real people who populate Bruder’s book. The unconventional road trip movie coiled through punishing landscapes in five states - Arizona, Nebraska, Nevada, California and South Dakota. Within six months, Zhao, McDormand and Spears hit the road and embarked on the $4 million to $6 million Searchlight film’s five-month shoot. “Immediately, it was very much Fran and I realizing that we have a lot in common, that the things that attracted us to the book are very similar,” Zhao adds. While McDormand may have set the stage with that outfit, the fact that the women were like-minded about the material sealed the deal. Could we create another iconography through her?” Just looking at her, the iconography of Frances McDormand, whether it’s a police uniform or overalls - my mind was going 1,000 miles an hour of what would Fern look like. “She’s very fashionable and she made that overall feel like a whole trend. “She was wearing overalls,” Zhao recalls of her first impressions of McDormand, 63.
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