Maggie Gyllenhaal

I think we have monstrous aspects inside of us, each of us, all of us.

I do believe that.

And I think we can spend our lives running from those really, truly monstrous aspects of ourselves, or we can turn around and shake hands with them.

And that's terrifying.

And that's the kind of monstrousness I was curious about and interested in.

Frankenstein as a piece of cultural mythology, I actually hadn't read the book.

I mean, I'll tell you how it all came to me.

I was getting kind of pitched IP after The Lost Daughter.

You know, like, maybe you want to do a... Marvel movie or whatever.

Right, or something.

And I had made this little tiny movie about...

really left alone, like almost entirely.

It was cheap enough that, and it was COVID and they sort of forgot about us.

That's what I think when I look back on it.

But it made an impact.

And I thought, I don't know how many more opportunities I'll have to make a film.

I want to do something bigger.

And I also thought The Lost Daughter hit a little vein in

where other people could relate to something that hadn't been talked about that much before.

And I thought, what if you could do the same thing, but like on a pop level, on like a big level?