# @thewrap on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUqhqihGCQA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/56244312-thewrap-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-12T16:24:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Wrap (@thewrap) — https://gondola.cc/thewrap

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#TheWrapMagazine: Chloé Zhao on ‘Hamnet,’ Grief and Keeping Your Heart Open When the World Is Falling Apart

#ChloéZhao didn’t set out to become a filmmaker. At least not at first. As an American politics major, she once imagined a future in policymaking before film school redirected her path and sparked the foundation of her visual storytelling.

Today, with multiple critically acclaimed films and most recently #Hamnet earning eight Oscar nominations, along with creative collaborations alongside filmmakers such as #StevenSpielberg, Zhao remains guided by artistry above all. For her, each project is part of a spiritual evolution, unfolding like the four seasons of a creative garden, each phase necessary for what blooms next.

“I feel as an artist, sometimes it’s easier to look outside: ‘What does the outside world need? Let’s produce that.’ Because it’s really hard to look inward. But what we need internally is the medicine the external world needs.”

🔗 Read the full interview at the link in bio.

Photographer: Jeremy Liebman jeremy_liebman

Creative Direction: Michaela Dosamantes micalovesthis & Andrew Wren mrwrenandfriends
Design Directors: Shannon Watkins shannonbwatkins; Ian Robinson idr_design 
Photo Editor & Producer: Tiensirin Tienngern _tiensirin_
Photographer Assistant: Aaron Morganstein aaronmorganstein 
Executive Editor, Awards: Steve Pond stevepond31
Deputy Editor, Awards: Missy Schwartz marymissyschwartz
Digi Tech: Alex Wood cablemgmtdigital

chloezhao wears lanvin 

#JessieBuckley wears driesvannoten 

#PaulMescal wears gucci

With kering_official

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chloézhao, stevenspielberg, paulmescal, thewrapmagazine, hamnet, jessiebuckley

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