Maggie Gyllenhaal

There's real joy in this movie.

Yeah, it was difficult, but not...

Like, not in a bad way.

It was just very new for me, and I was very interested.

Like, I loved working with Pam Apte, who runs Warner Brothers, along with Mike DeLuca.

Both of them were there, but I think both of them would say, this is really me and Pam.

And I knew she understood me.

And I knew she understood what I was saying.

And there would be times where she would be like, Maggie, you cannot have Frankenstein lick black vomit off of the bride's neck.

It's just too much.

You just can't do it.

But she understood why I wanted it.

You know, it's not like she was someone who didn't hear me and couldn't understand me.

What I now am putting out into the world is

I think the places where Pam really pushed me to let go of things, to be honest, I really do think that they served the movie ultimately.

And my goal from the very beginning was to try to open a bigger vein, was to tell the truth about something that could be heard by many people.

So

I really think Pam helped me to do that.

And she never pretended she was doing anything else.

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