Aubrey Plaza is determined to be the 'Tim Burton woman' with Next Project

Aubrey Plaza channels Tim Burton for her next career move.

The 'White Lotus' Season 2 star has confirmed an upcoming top-secret family film, which she has written and is set to direct, in a cover story with .

"I'm trying to fill Tim Burton's female niche," Plaza said of the as-yet-untitled project, which airs "Beetlejuice" and "Hocus Pocus." Plaza will produce through his company Evil Hag Productions.

And while the 'Emily the Criminal' actress may yearn to put a feminine spin on author Burton's aesthetic, she's playing a 'Bond woman' for the Guy Ritchie-directed action-comedy 'Operation Fortune: Cunning of War". Plaza and co-star Jason Statham try to outdo themselves as CIA agents, with Plaza adding, "If I'm the Bond woman, what does Bond do? Bond grabs the girl. Bond objectifies everyone and is also a badass. So I objectified Statham all the time. Literally slapping her ass. I think they were all afraid of me. Like, who's that girl that's coming on so well?"

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Plaza is also set to star in the Disney+ series 'Agatha: Coven of Chaos' and is currently filming Francis Ford Coppola's epic 'Megalopolis' alongside Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf and Forest Whitaker. "Moving from Mike White to Francis Ford Coppola is a good year for me," Plaza said. "I try to manifest that. I try to work with brilliant directors."

The 'Parks and Recreation' alum teamed up with her husband and longtime collaborator Jeff Baena for this year's 'Spin Me Round', and addressed the game against type at a Foundation event SAG-AFTRA hosted by IndieWire's Eric Kohn.

"You do something, people react, and they want to see you do it over and over and over again. I think you just have to be really proactive about changing that narrative on your own," Plaza said. gave me the motivation to prove myself."

She continued, "I think, for a while, I was like, 'Oh man, I'm being put in a box, and I don't like it, so I'm going to fight for myself. 'get out of this and show people what I can do' or something like that. But then I started to think of it as a gift. If I convince people so well that I was that thing and then I do something totally different, it will be that much more satisfying to surprise them. So I started trying to think about it like that and be a little bit more positive and less bitter about it. "

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