“People tend to only ask that with women writers. “I think no one asks that of men,” adds de Wilde. “When making the movie, we never said, ‘Well, you know, people have seen ‘Emma’ before, so how are we going to make this different?’ We just said, ‘This is our story, what are we going to do to make it ours and make us happy?’” “Some people are like, ‘We’ve had a period piece with women at the center, why do we need another one?’ And it’s like, ‘Excuse me?’” says Taylor-Joy. “We would have to hide him from her, because even seeing a part of his face was too much,” de Wilde recalls.Īudiences are likely to draw comparisons between “Emma.” and other recent women-led literary adaptations and costume dramas, most notably Greta Gerwig’s ambitious “Little Women” (2019). He would come out in that ridiculous outfit, and start, ‘Dearly beloved friends,’ and I would just lose it.” “He’s the only actor I’ve ever broken on camera in front of. “He makes me look like an unprofessional actress,” she says with a laugh. The actress found both a friend and foe in “God’s Own Country” (2017) star Josh O’Connor, who plays the self-absorbed local vicar, Mr. “The second all went in, we were like these mutt puppies that suddenly realized we all had the same parents.” “I think Autumn is what Emma wanted to be - she’s a really good friend-matchmaker,” she says. “I was like, how does this even happen?”Īctress Anya Taylor-Joy, shown at the Eliot Hotel, stars in the new film "Emma." Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staffĪlthough Taylor-Joy was cast in the title role, the actress feels that de Wilde is the real Emma of the team. “I was on the phone with Mia that morning explaining I was meeting with a director, I had no idea,” Taylor-Joy, says laughing. Taylor-Joy’s response? “That is my best friend.” Upon meeting the actress for the first time, de Wilde showed Taylor-Joy a photo of “Suspiria” (2018) actress Mia Goth and suggested she might play Harriet, explaining, “I think this could be your best friend.” Taylor-Joy can attest to de Wilde’s “sixth sense” for casting. “When you’re a good host, you seat people in the right places so they can be their most comfortable and open - I feel the same about being a director,” de Wilde says. She compares the work of casting and hiring her crew to seating a “huge dinner party” of near-strangers and making them feel at home. “I really cut my teeth learning how to create an environment for them where they could flourish, instead of feeling crushed by witnesses,” she says. Through decades of shooting music videos and album covers for artists like Jenny Lewis, Fiona Apple, and Elliott Smith, de Wilde has developed a set of skills for making people feel open in front of a camera. “Rock and roll is the perfect place to put a Regency man,” she says, at the Eliot Hotel on Wednesday, seated alongside her film’s 23-year-old star, Anya Taylor-Joy. Her deep roots in the rock ‘n’ roll and fashion communities may not seem like they’d be relevant to adapting Jane Austen’s 1815 comedy of manners, but de Wilde insists the two worlds aren’t as far apart as they seem. With her first film, the accomplished photographer has traded live recordings for handwritten letters and midnight movies for ballroom glances. I challenged him to take me on a date to the worst movie of all time and make out with me in the back row - but the movie was so bad we didn’t even feel like making out.” “For each base he wanted to go to with me, he’d have to write a song and leave it on my answering machine. “In my twenties, I dated a musician I won’t name and we sort of pretended we were in love,” she recalls. Autumn de Wilde might be new to filmmaking, but the 49-year-old “Emma.” director is no stranger to playful, Austenesque romance.
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