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Niki Caro and Jessica Chastain Talk with The Huffington Post
The director and star of The Zookeeper's Wife sit down for an extensive talk with Build Series.
"My gender should have absolutely nothing to do with it, at least in discussing the quality of my work, in which case I'm very proud to be working in a feminine way," Caro says of the industry's hiring trends. "I've been silent for personal reasons, but now I'm very happy to say publicly that it's a shameful statistic. Just the sheer ignoring of 50 percent of the available skill and talent and vision and tenacity and ambition appalls me.”
The full Q+A is up at The Huffington Post.
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