Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Podcast Appearances
I had been learning about for something else, of a spiritualist, which was almost always a woman.
And it was like as ubiquitous as a therapist was someone who spoke to the dead for you.
And so I started out setting it then because I thought that was kind of an interesting time to just โ
to be dealing with people brought back from the dead.
And then I realized that Frankenstein, my Frank, I don't call him Frankenstein's monster because he would never call himself that, you know?
So Frank was so lonely that maybe his only, like his primary relationship was with
A movie star who didn't know about him, of course, but that he could go sit in a theater and watch this movie star.
And also in a dark movie theater, his ugly face, you know, his scarred up face wouldn't be so, you know, scary to people.
So then I thought, okay, I have to set it in a time when there are movies.
Also because the movies then are so much about fantasy.
And my movie is actually a lot about kind of breaking down the fantasy.
And what does a real love affair look like?
What is the reality versus the fantasy?
But still, 1936, which I think is beautiful.
It was always 1936 sort of by way of 1981 downtown New York.