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Minor SPOILERS are ahead for "The Bride!," now playing in theaters.

Did you know "The Bride!" wasn’t always going to be part of the 2026 movie schedule? Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on "The Bride of Frankenstein" was originally going to come out this past fall, until the release date was pushed back six months. When CinemaBlend spoke to the movie’s filmmaker, we ended up talking about one aspect of it that changed after her original cut was screened for audiences, and how it added to the final cut.

"The Bride!" opens up by declaring that its author, Mary Shelley, came up with the sci-fi classic Frankenstein “on a dare”. Then, the audience meets Shelley through Jessie Buckley’s narration and feral performance of the real person (alongside the actress playing The Bride). When CinemaBlend asked Gyllenhaal about opening up the movie in this fashion, she said this.
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00:00Oh, I loved being Mary Shelley.
00:02I mean, I still kind of sometimes talk to myself as Mary Shelley.
00:06Same.
00:07Same.
00:10Yeah, and there was like so, I mean, I guess when you start creating something,
00:14you kind of start looking around for who reflects a texture
00:17of what that character might feel like for you.
00:20And part of who I was inspired by was this artist called Maggie Hambling,
00:27who's this incredible, untethered, naughty,
00:32will only be photographed with a cigarette kind of woman.
00:37And I loved her voice.
00:38And that felt very interesting to me for creating Mary Shelley.
00:42But actually, being completely honest, the stuff that you see of Mary Shelley,
00:47I was eight months pregnant when we shot that,
00:50which was such a wild, incredible experience because I was like a monster.
00:56You know, I had like two heartbeats inside me.
00:58I was on the precipice of creation myself.
01:01We were like talking about what do we dare to offer to this woman,
01:10to your daughters, to our women out there, to love, you know, to life.
01:16And to be able to do that with like this kind of creature in my belly
01:22while being untethered was delicious.
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