Directed by William Oldroyd Eileen Just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last night, Anne Hathaway, who will lead the film alongside Thomasin Mackenzie, is using the opportunity to reveal the very creepy story of when she started acting as a teenager. I talked about how movies are connected to such experiences.
As reported by variety, during the post-screening Q&A, Hathaway shared this story. Hathaway says she was 16 at the time.This probably means it was in the early days of the One Season Fox series get the real thing (featuring the screen debuts of both Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg), and Hathaway says “my 16-year-old self wanted to respond with this movie.”
Hathaway talked about before how the script Eileen, based on Otessa Moshfeg’s book of the same name, inspired her and said: I had to go back to it. I had to stay away from it. It kept revealing itself to me. Hathaway also said she was drawn to the project at the Sundance Film Festival and because she wanted to work with Oldroyd. lady macbeth (featuring Florence Pugh in her breakout role) was “extraordinary work” and “a study of female complications” that struck her “really, really deeply.”
Eileen star mackenzie variety As a prison secretary, she finds her way out of her dark days by forging a relationship with a psychologist (Hathaway) that ultimately leads her to a darker turn. Eileen doesn’t have a distributor yet…so we’re taking the film to Sundance.