The Chernobyl star wishes to keep collaborating with the 48-year-old director and the reason for why is it has a past connection, “You want to go to the part of the self that’s right down at the bottom of the force in yourself—and also for the people that you work with—that you and they are trying to suppress. And you want to give that thing that hasn’t been given a voice some light, so that it can be part of the growth. Sometimes, that’s really uncomfortable—actually, all the time it is. But my experience of feeling that and working with her in The Lost Daughter was that it was like drinking water. It was like, ‘I need this. I need to actually know that this is in front of me and I have to metabolize it’.”
Sharing how their vision transpired in The Bride, she added, “This was a big sandpit. We were being asked to create a really epic landscape, and so there was so much possibility and so much choice. We had to actively choose how we wanted to create as artists, and not just be passive, but be brave, and be in an absolute unknowability most of the time, but then have complete conviction and a laser beam about where the truth was and go after it.”
The Bride
Based on the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, which originally comes from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, The Bride tells the story of a loneliness-stricken Frank who goes to Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) and demands that he create a companion to ease his worries. The two revive a dead woman, and that’s how The Bride is born, ensuing a lifetime of chaos and unexpected romance.
Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz are also a part of the film releasing worldwide on March 6, 2026.