'I wanted to do something that really took you into their mind. What teeters somebody over the edge?'
and Brooklynn Prince) who may or may not be harboring dark secrets . While the film’s premise sounds like your standard horror set-up, Sigismondi had more on her mind than jumpscares, using her characters’ arcs to explore themes of trauma, abuse, and toxic masculinity, shot through a feminist lens. Here, she connected with her neighbor Dakota Johnson to discuss the mechanics of horror from a woman’s perspective, and truths that don’t always set us free.JOHNSON: I’m doing pretty good.
SIGISMONDI: The book was written in the 1800s and I wanted to modernize it. I set it in the ’90s because I thought, let’s get rid of technology so she can’t look things up and call for help. It’s a very POV story, so I was able to play with her nightmares. That’s where I put a lot of me into it—her nightmares and fears and her psychological frame of mind.
JOHNSON: It so depends on how the people around you react to it. That kind of dictates the direction you’ll go in for the rest of your life, like the different characters in your movie perhaps, representing the different ways that you can deal with trauma, or that you can not deal with it.
SIGISMONDI: You can hear it in the women when they’re thanking you for the opportunity to speak about it. JOHNSON: Do you ever feel that? When I look at your work, you expose a side of yourself that I would feel really vulnerable about exposing. If I were to illustrate my darkest thoughts or the things that come to me in the night, I don’t, because I’m like, “What would it look like?” In that aspect, I care what people would think, but I respect what you do and what you create. “My darkness sees your darkness.
JOHNSON: I totally believe in that and I totally believe in you, completely. There’s a kind of throughline with the artists that you’ve worked with. They’re all mavericks in their own way, likeand Leonard Cohen and obviously David Bowie. You’ve worked with some of my favorite artists of all time.
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