TORONTO - Actress-turned-director Sarah Polley has confirmed reports that she's working on a new big-screen adaptation of “Little Women.”
“I'm writing 'Little Women' and I'm writing my own film as well,” Polley told The Canadian Press.
“And then I'm producing 'Alias Grace' as a miniseries, which I've been writing for a long time, and it's now written in six, one-hours and hopefully will go into production either this year or next year,” she added, referring to an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Polley, who got a 2008 Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay for “Away from Her,” said she's “always writing.”
“But writing is something you can do while a baby naps, so it's perfect,” added the mother of two.
“But the idea of going back out into the world and making my own stuff, it's not immediate. My youngest is still seven months, so I'm not jumping back on a film set right away. But it's something that I'm excited to do.”
On Tuesday, Polley helped announce the winner of this year's $100,000 Glenn Gould Prize.
She and an esteemed international jury panel picked American composer Philip Glass as the 2015 recipient of the biennial prize, which honours living laureates from a variety of creative disciplines for their body of work.
Polley called the three-time Oscar nominee's work “visionary.”
“I think he pushed something that was very avant-garde and on the fringes into the mainstream,” she said. “I think he, as a result, opened people's minds musically.”
That was certainly the case for Polley. While she knew of his work before being on the jury panel, she wasn't “very familiar” with it. Polley said she signed on to the jury to be inspired and that's exactly what happened.
“I've been home a lot in the last few years with my kids and I haven't gone out very much, to be honest. And for me it was like, 'What an amazing reintroduction to the world, in a strange way, to get to sit in this group of people,”' she said.
“It really was inspiring beyond what I even hoped it would be, but I knew it would inspire me and make me start thinking about being an artist again and what that means and see it in different ways.”
