The filmmaker and Oscar-winning scribe joins producer Josey McNamara to preview her wild and wicked second feature.
Emerald Fennelldoesn’t mind if you don’t love her work.
In fact, she embraces it.
Jacob Elordi as Felix in ‘Saltburn’.Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios
In fact, she finds it “so thrilling.”
“I think it’s really important, actually, to be happy and comfortable with that.
“And I think it’s also where you start to question yourself as an audience member.
Those places where you’re like, ‘Is this sexy?
Do I love him?
Do I hate him?’
That’s part of what this movie is about.”
“To me, it’s all about, how do we give the audience a new experience?”
WithSaltburn, she says, “The question is, who are the vampires in this movie?
Everyone’s kind of digging in, aren’t they?”
For having such an innately dark heart, though, the film is often quite funny.
Fennell describes it as “macabre dark comedy” and “not dissimilar toPromising Young Woman.”
One person who was clearly all in was Keoghan, who gives an astounding turn as Oliver.
In the most literal sense, Keoghan bares itallin the role and makes it look insultingly easy.
“That’s the thing with Barry,” Fennell says.
We just want to do anything to make something real and profound and destabilizing.”
And, again, that destabilization is a goal for the filmmakers.
“We want for people to just have fun, really come and have fun and get excited.”
