\u201cDo you know what? It actually wasn\u2019t really [something I was thinking about],\u201d she said when the question was put to her.<\/p>
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\u201cI mean, obviously Highsmith is one of my absolute favourites, but I think that I was sort of looking more at that British Country House tradition of The Go-Between and that sort of very specific British\u2026 sort of Joseph Losey world, where class and power and sex all kind of collide in one specific place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saltburn is Fennell\u2019s second film after the Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman, and she explained that she settled on the idea for her next film quite soon after the huge success of her debut \u2013 spurred on by the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to say, the Covid lockdown probably really intensified that feeling,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know, this is a film kind of about voyeurism, I suppose, and desire and watching.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it felt like, you know, lockdown just intensified all of that stuff for all of us. So, yeah, it felt like the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n The film boasts a star-studded cast that includes Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Richard E Grant, as well as a brief but memorable role for Promising Young Woman star Carey Mulligan \u2013 but it\u2019s arguably Rosamund Pike who steals the show.<\/p>\n Pike plays Lady Catton, the matriarch of the aristocratic family who live at the titular estate, and Fennell explained how the role gave the star plenty of opportunity to show off her \u201ccomedic genius\u201d.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cShe\u2019s so amazing. I mean, she\u2019s just so brilliant. And from the moment I met her I just thought, \u2018Oh, nobody is going to be able to touch what she\u2019ll be able to do.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I\u2019ve just been such a huge fan of hers\u2026 like, I\u2019d seen An Education years ago, and obviously Gone Girl, and then I Care a Lot. And I just felt like she\u2019s such a gifted\u2026 she\u2019s almost such a subtle comic actress that she\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n \u201cLike, she\u2019s sort of a stealth weapon, you kind of don\u2019t necessarily know it.\u201d<\/p>\n She added that, as an actor herself, she enjoyed having conversations with the cast about the script and characters, delving into aspects of their history that aren\u2019t necessarily directly included in the film<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Rosamund is just so detailed,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s like me, she\u2019s obsessed with kind of hyper, hyper, hyper specificity.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we got to talk a lot about her character\u2019s life in London in the \u201990s, what model agencies she was signed to and how resentful she was of certain other models from the same era who allegedly slept with other photographers.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we would just go down these wonderful, wonderful tangents. And, you know, so much of it is kind of it is imbued in her performance.\u201d<\/p>\n Saltburn is showing in UK cinemas now. Check out more of our\u00a0Film<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage, or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 10 issues for only \u00a310 \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who with a special issue of Radio Times. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n “I was sort of looking more at that British Country House tradition of The Go-Between.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39904,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons.jpg",1968,1309,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons-1024x681.jpg",800,532,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/11\/emerald-fennell-plays-down-saltburns-talented-mr-ripley-comparisons.jpg",1968,1309,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\"I was sort of looking more at that British Country House tradition of The Go-Between.\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/39903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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