“I watched the [1935] movie The Bride of Frankenstein and I didn’t know, but she’s only in it for two minutes and she doesn’t say one word,” recalls Maggie Gyllenhaal. “And it made me start to wonder, made me curious what is she thinking, after having been dug up from a grave and told she’s supposed to be marrying somebody that she doesn’t recognize? What’s on her mind?”
And so began The Bride!, Gyllenhaal’s second directorial feature that gives the Bride of Frankenstein her big moment. It’s set in 1930s Chicago where Frankenstein’s monster (who goes by Frank, played by Christian Bale) asks Annette Bening’s Dr. Euphronius to create a companion for him, as they bring to life a murdered young woman known as The Bride.
Jessie Buckley, likely just days away from winning an Oscar for her performance in Hamnet,…
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