STAR-STUDDED CAST TALKS ABOJIT 'THE BRIDE!'

“The Bride!,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s iconoclastic take on the story of The Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein, is opening in cinemas today, March 4.

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Here, the star-studded cast, led by Academy Award nominee and recent Golden Globe and BAFTA winner Jessie Buckley (for “Hamnet”) and Academy Award winner Christian Bale, talk about the film and working with Gyllenhaal as a director.

On what the story of “The Bride!” means for her, Buckley, who plays the titular character, says, “I think the title THE BRIDE! isn’t about being individual or being on your own. The Bride means that you are absolutely in relationship to something or someone. And in this case, The Bride is in a deep, meaningful, powerful, passionate relationship with Frank, and she wants that to be absolute. And she also wants to be in relationship with the world.”

“She doesn’t want to be locked in a room, in an attic. She wants love, and she wants her mind to be alive. She doesn’t want to have to be deciphered, or have parts of her accepted and other parts of her not accepted. And I think this film is about autonomy of the self and incubating your monster, your shadows so you can be in undeniable full bodied relationship with each other. How much of me can you actually love? Not just the idea of me.”

Upon reading the script, Bale, who plays Frankenstein, thought to himself that “The Bride!” was a movie that he would personally love to go see — and that’s what made him want to be a part of it.