Zoe Kazan Says 'Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Is Her 'Less Gendered Experience on Set'

Zoe Kazan strikes a pose while attending the MoMA’s Contenders screening of her Netflix film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs held at MoMA Titus One on Wednesday (December 19) in New York City.

The 35-year-old writer-actress was joined at the event by her co-stars Tim Blake Nelson and Bill Heck, and moderator Sean Egan, MoMA film exhibitions and special projects producer.

“I think everyone’s minds are on issues of representations now, or there’s a heightened awareness,” Zoe expressed about her (via THR). “The Coens [Joel and Ethan Coen], I think, historically have written really interesting female roles, and I’ve never had a less gendered experience on set in my entire career.”

“I didn’t think it was a deficit in the script, but I did think, ‘If we’re going to only have one or two female protagonists in this whole thing, I better make sure that I’m doing my job,’” Zoe continued. “But it’s the Coen brothers and you want to do a good job as an actor anyways because they’re the kind of filmmakers that actors dream their entire career of getting to work with.”