I don't know if anybody else could have done what she did.” She doesn't need to blow the air out of the room to make a really beautiful scene. “It's not an easy sell! It's not a book that you read it and say, 'oh, film that right away,'” she laughs, “I mean, it lacks anything Hollywood – there’s no sex, violence, not even loads of celebrities, besides Frances, who is magnificent. She seems pleasantly surprised by the film’s stratospheric success and still faintly bemused that it was adapted at all. I trusted her and I love what she’s done with it.” Now I'm going to put them on the table and she can cook what she wants with it. I've been gathering ingredients in my pantry for almost a decade. “It was a little scary to hand over material I'd spent many, many years working on with people I’d come to care about,” she says, “But for me, looking at Chloé Zhao’s past work, I just thought, she's a phenomenal chef. The story took on a life of its own and Bruder spun the narrative into a three-year-project and a much-lauded 2017 book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Centurywhich became – of course - a 2021 Oscar winning film starring Frances McDormand.
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