Dreaming spires, sexual obsession, and indie sleaze collide in Emerald Fennell’s scintillating new thriller “Saltburn.” Hayley Maitland meets the director and cast.
“Oh, please don’t, please don’t, please don’t.” Ensconced between the plush furnishings, Churchill biographies, and crystal decanters of Mayfair’s 5 Hertford Street, Emerald Fennell is frozen, mortified, a cheese straw halfway to her mouth. “I am justYou see, I’ve brought up a carefully repressed memory. Back in 2007, the same month the first iPhone launched, Fennell—then an English student polishing her thesis on “incest in modern drama” at Greyfriars, Oxford—posed for a feature in.
She may be winningly disarmed by my mention of the portfolio, but it’s those dreaming spires in the mid-Noughties to which she returns for, which saw her become the first British woman to be nominated for a best director Oscar and whose win for best original screenplay shocked her so much she actually blacked out. “It was amazing. Are you kidding? Like, what? What the fuck? Like, what the fuck? Wouldn’t believe it. Couldn’t believe it. It’s not a conceivable thing to happen.
Director of photography Benjamin Kracun, director Emerald Fennell, Sam Richardson, and Carey Mulligan on the set ofThis sort of commentary, I learn, is typical of Fennell. She is as comically self-effacing about herself as she is gushing about everything else . Her ferocious intellect is apparent within approximately 90 seconds of her sitting down in an armchair and dropping her JW Anderson Bumper at her Prada-shod feet.
Perched across from her in a quiet upstairs corner of the private members’ club, I find myself wondering how many people in this world could transition directly from an anecdote about Vistaprinting “What Happens in Kassiopi, Stays in Kassiopi” T-shirts to an in-depth analysis of the continuing cultural relevance ofphotoshoot, “She has a jolly hockey sticks public school persona, but her control and mastery on set, even with 250 crew members and enough lights for a military maneuver, is absolute.
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