00:00I would just love to hear what drew you to the story of Frankenstein and The Bride specifically.
00:04Yeah, it's actually, well, how do I put this?
00:09I watched the movie The Bride of Frankenstein and I didn't know, but she's only in it for two minutes
00:17and she doesn't say one word.
00:20And it made me start to wonder, it made me curious, what is she thinking after having been dug up
00:26from a grave
00:27and told she's supposed to be marrying somebody that she doesn't recognize?
00:31What's on her mind?
00:33And that's where this story started.
00:35It reminds me a lot of the untold histories that are lost because we just didn't hear from women over
00:41time.
00:41Yeah, or even small side parts in other movies and all the movies that probably all of us saw growing
00:49up
00:49where you're like, oh, wait, what about her?
00:51She's just only in the movie to support the main characters who are guys.
00:54I'm kind of curious about her, too.
00:56But it's very much true in The Bride of Frankenstein where you really just don't get to hear from her.
01:01I love that.
01:02And obviously you cast Jessie Buckley, incredible actress.
01:04I've heard you had to fight the studio a bit to cast her, though.
01:07Are you feeling a little bit like I told you so now with all the Oscar buzz?
01:10Jessie Buckley was in my first film and she was so wonderful and also spoke my language in a way
01:20that I've never encountered in quite the same way.
01:23I also like working with actors who speak another language.
01:25It's also very exciting.
01:26But Jessie and I are real soul sisters and artistic sisters and have been for a long time.
01:31I love that.
01:33And how did you come up with this now iconic look for The Bride to be different from the 1935
01:39film?
01:40Well, we knew that it had to be iconic, you know, and at the same time, I wanted it to
01:45be very real and very human.
01:48You know, she wears one dress for the entire movie.
01:50How does that dress?
01:51How do you sweat in it and live in it and get stained and torn and ripped?
01:56And the same was true for Christian.
01:58I wanted him to be scary, like a monster, but very real.
02:03And I think it's more upsetting to see a face that looks like it actually could have been sewn together,
02:09the neck sewn onto the face, than something that looks like a Halloween mask.
02:13So we wanted it to be like that kind of almost graphic novel, iconic vibe mixed with the very, very
02:21real.
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