After winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for her feature film debut Promising young womanbefore her new film Salt burnsEmerald Fennell is as confident a filmmaker as you’ll find at this stage of her career. Their tense exploration of class, insecurity, sex and justice goes even deeper in its second go-round, but it’s been a long time coming. As she will tell you in Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse, the seeds were planted when she was just 11 years old. Watch the video for a full view.
Fennell began her career as an actress in period films such as Albert Nobbs, Anna KareninaAnd The Danish girl. She became a star in the BBC drama series Call the midwifeand played Camilla Parker-Bowles The crown. She followed a parallel path as a writer, and was chosen by Phoebe Waller-Bridge to replace her as showrunner of Kill EveShe wrote books and worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber in the musical Bad Cinderellabefore switching to directing Promising young woman. What led to your journey? As in Saltburn, Fennell shows it all in this part of Fuse.
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