Director Frances O’Connor breaks Emily Brontë out of the period piece.
, the new film about Emily Brontë that isn’t so much a biopic, but a character study told in birdsong soundscape, lingering glances, and unadulterated angst – there is a seance of sorts.’s Emma Mackey, her siblings, and William Weightman, the priest she’s crushing on, are horsing around with a white-style mask. They’re each trying it on, pretending to be the ghosts of the dead. But instead of conjuring, say, Marie Antoinette, Emily becomes the ghost of the Brontës’ dead mother.
I've been wanting to write and direct for a while and I've been working on the script for a while. I knew for my first thing I wanted it to be about Emily because I felt like I've always located in her a sense of being authentic and being true to who I am, even if what that is feels different. I think we all feel that we're different, ultimately. I just think she's also a really beautiful kind of role model for people in terms of being yourself.
There have been so many films made already about the Brontës, how did you want to make yours different? I also will say that with so many period pieces now, it's very fashionable to modernize them, and I really appreciated that I didn't hear a Billie Eilish song in this movie. People really weren't that different back then, especially up somewhere like Yorkshire. It was pretty real up there. I didn't want it to be so dark that it's a turnoff. I wanted you to still really be in there with her and rooting for her because you love her. You love who she is, even if it's a bit quirky.
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