“What do you mean by wild?” Maggie Gyllenhaal has been hearing a lot of reactions to The Bride! like mine lately. The actress-turned-filmmaker understands that label being used for her punk-infused, sensual and decadently designed revisionist take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and James Whale’s subsequent 1935 classic film Bride of Frankenstein. She made it with what she describes as great freedom, the “space for wild and surprising things to happen.” This was important to her from the jump. But the final product is “very, very considered,” she adds.
“I do constantly get the response: ‘This is wild, this is new, this is in a different language, I haven’t seen anything like this before,’” Gyllenhaal explains over Zoom, a few days out from the film’s release on Friday. “But to me who made it, it feels like home. So it’s hard for me to sometimes process that,…
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