{"id":2311158,"date":"2026-03-03T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2311158"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:02:16","slug":"maggie-gyllenhaal-says-the-bride-test-screenings-criticized-films-sexual-violence-and-warner-bros-boss-told-her-you-cant-have-frankenstein-lick-black-vomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maggie-gyllenhaal-says-the-bride-test-screenings-criticized-films-sexual-violence-and-warner-bros-boss-told-her-you-cant-have-frankenstein-lick-black-vomi\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Gyllenhaal Says \u2018The Bride\u2019 Test Screenings Criticized Film\u2019s Sexual Violence and Warner Bros. Boss Told Her \u2018You Can\u2019t Have Frankenstein Lick Black Vomit Off the Bride\u2019s Neck\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0350454\/\">Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a> joined The New York Times\u2019 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2788710\/\">The Interview<\/a>\u201d podcast to discuss her latest directorial effort, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088851\/\">The Bride<\/a>\u201d and revealed how the studio test screening process took her to task over the movie\u2019s depiction of violence and sexual violence. Gyllenhaal wrote and directed \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088851\/\">The Bride<\/a>,\u201d a revisionist look at \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein\u201d that stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2976580\/\">Jessie Buckley<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000288\/\">Christian Bale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s sexual violence. There\u2019s violence. Because it\u2019s a big studio movie, we tested and tested it,\u201d Gyllenhaal said. \u201cWe had big screenings in malls, where people came to see it, which I had never been a part of as an actress or a director before. So fascinating. And one of the things that they brought up was the violence: Is it too violent? And I was talking about it with a girlfriend of mine, who said \u2014 and she wasn\u2019t being reductive \u2014 \u2018I wonder if you&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Gyllenhaal joined The New York Times\u2019 \u201cThe Interview\u201d podcast to discuss her latest directorial effort, \u201cThe Bride\u201d and revealed how the studio test screening process took her to task over the movie\u2019s depiction of violence and sexual violence. Gyllenhaal wrote and directed \u201cThe Bride,\u201d a revisionist look at \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein\u201d that stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2311158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Maggie-Gyllenhaal-Says-\u2018The-Bride-Test-Screenings-Criticized-Films-Sexual.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311160,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311158\/revisions\/2311160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}