Amanda Seyfried stars in the project as Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, who is believed to be the female Christ by her followers. At the L.A. premiere on Sunday, Fastvold declared Lee as “perhaps the first American feminist” and thought “what a shame” it was that so few people know about her in current day.
Writing alongside her husband Brady Corbet, Fastvold told The Hollywood Reporter that “because the Shakers worshipped through ecstatic song and dance, it had to be a musical and movement piece, which is what I called it for a very long time. And then Brady ultimately just said, ‘Mona, it’s a musical, that’s what this is when there are…
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