And so then people watch it, which is so thrilling.
But yeah, you are showing yourself.
You are taking your clothes off and exposing yourself.
Emerald Fennell in Telluride.Deadline
She added thatSaltburn, while made on a big canvas, is a very intimate movie.
Sadly, I have observed such actions close up.
Fennell also hasnods to Evelyn WaughsBrideshead Revisited, Daphne du MauriersRebecca, and Emily BrontesWuthering Heights.
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’Amazon Studios & MGM
And lets not forget a splash ofGosford ParkandDownton Abbey.
Keoghans Quick has dreamt of being at home under Oxfords towering spires.
He wants to belong there, but thats another trap.
Being socially unaware in that town is a no-no, and so hes treated cruelly.
He turns up smartly dressed in the college attire and hes read the complete reading list.
Actually, you should dress as though you havent washed in five days.
You shouldnt read the reading list.
Thats another nasty trap, she said.
His familys history stretches back to Henry VIII, and its stuffed with priceless art and bad plumbing.
Quick very quickly gains entry to Cattons circle, and very soon is introduced to his family.
Thats where all the rules and regulations come in.
Staying at Saltburn for the summer is a nightmare.
Fennell discussed removing her clothes metaphorically, but she had her cast disrobe and expose themselves.
Keoghan is seen in all his glory more than once.
In this movie, the things that are transgressive are in our minds.
We are imagining all that, she argued.
And so obviously the intimacy coordinators, all of that stuff were involved.
Consent is so important to me.
You want it to be that its something that you both absolutely want and understand.
That Barrys driven there.
Its all blood and guts with him, as well as this coolness, this beautiful coolness.
Thats why, she said, the scenes he does with someone like Pike are so funny.
On set, she and Keoghan were a little bit like brother and sister.
We both understood each other, we were naughty children together.
Sometimes he and I would share a look and hed be like, Okay.
Fennell wants audiences to have a visceral reaction to her film.
All the better if they squirm and scream collectively in their seats, she said.
I am a huge genre fan.
I love romance, I love horror.
But what I love about comedy and horrors, you feel the scream when youre in a room together.
Fennell suggested that in a room, people pick up on different things at different times.
People are aroused by things.
People are disgusted by things.
Its a kind of constant, moving thing.
I feel so much, especially as I get older, that we are all so, so conflicted.
By way of explanation, Fennell noted Sir Thomas More, Henry VIIIs Lord Chancellor.
It is about us all, its about everyone being together.
And then he absolutely loved burning heretics.
We all do mad things when we think no one is watching, she said.
None of us are seen by anyone as the way we see ourselves.
Like it could be all sorts of things.
And how do we navigate it and why is it endlessly so alluring?
Theres no feeling without its counter-feeling.
When theyre incredibly frightened they laugh.
Its just a basic human instinct.
Theres no feeling without the opposite feeling.
Its how we exist.
So it makes sense that nothing is frictionless.
The people often that we most loathe are the ones we want the most, she said.
WithPromising Young Woman, I was so so careful to remember that nobody thinks theyre a bad person.
Olivier Quick, however, is an interesting one, because I dont think he cares.
Hes a kind of fascinatingly ambivalent person, driven in a kind of fascinating way.
He is our throbbing desire.
Fennell said that its the upper classes inSaltburnwho are the vampires.
They are poverty vampires.
The way that they treat the people.
Doesnt even speak to her, just ushers her away.
Who is the vampire?
Who are the vampires here?
We are all sucking at something.
Fennell admits that not everyone will get it.
Not everyone will find it sexy, not everyone will find it funny.
Its a difficult one because this is a funny movie, I think.
Its a rich stew.
The behavior depicted inSaltburnis animal, Fennell said.
Every time an atrocity happens, people say, We just didnt see it coming.
We didnt see it coming.
We didnt see it coming.
We are seeing each other all the time.
We are looking at each other.
Were looking at what people are eating, were looking at the surgery theyve done.
… Its a state of arousal, of acquiring, of needing.
Im not disapproving of it.
I dont have any judgment about it.
You know, I want things, I want things.
What does Emerald Fennell want the most, though?
Youre asking the wrong person, because I dont actually know myself, because theres nobody more in denial.
But what do youreallywant, I asked again.
A Big Mac with pickles, she said, laughing.
That sounds so f*cking grandiose.
You know, Im very boring, I think, in lots of ways.
But theres also something about having children that is so visceral and so dark.
What I found was that Ive never felt more animal.
Ive never felt more in touch with how terrifying the world is.
I admire her, because she chose not to.
She again partnered with Margot Robbies LuckyChap Entertainment, and theSaltburnproject was taken up byMGM/Amazon.
I honestly think though that its not a choice.
I dont how to be good at those things.
I can only really do this thing.
I wouldnt be any good at that, at those big things.
And also, Ive got so much admiration for people who do make those moves.
It looks f*cking hard.
You know, that is hard.
She wasnt falling into that trap.
Im not answering that today, she said, cracking up.
