CS Video: Jessica Chastain & Niki Caro talk The Zookeeper’s Wife Focus Features invited ComingSoon.net to sit down with Jessica Chastain and director Niki Caro to discuss The Zookeeper’s Wife, as well as a bit about Caro directing Disney’s live-action Mulan! Check out the video interview in the player below! Adapted from Diane Ackerman’s nonfiction book of the same name, The Zookeeper’s Wife movie is based on the diaries of Antonina Żabiński and is directed by Niki Caro (Whale Rider, North Country). The Zookeeper’s Wife dramatizes a real-life story of heroism.