“You Can’t Write Only on the Page” Emerald Fennell on ‘Saltburn’ & ‘Promising Young Woman’
“I’ve spent my life writing,” says Emerald Fennell. “It’s something I’ve done ever since I was a child. It’s something I would be doing whether I could make films or write books or not.” After University, Emerald wrote a pile of spec scripts to “find her voice.” During the hiatus of BBC’s Call the Midwife, […]
Emerald Fennell On “Promising Young Woman”
“It all began with a scene in my head of a drunk woman being undressed by a guy she picked up and suddenly she was stone cold sober,” said Emerald. This is how our protagonist Cassie (Carey Mulligan) exacts her revenge, by pretending to be the prey when she’s in fact the predator. When the […]
