{"id":69897,"date":"2026-02-25T14:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/?p=69897"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:48:58","slug":"director-maggie-gyllenhaal-empowers-the-bride-of-frankenstein-giving-her-huge-amounts-of-agency-intelligence-vulnerability-and-power-in-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/entertainment\/movies-entertainment\/director-maggie-gyllenhaal-empowers-the-bride-of-frankenstein-giving-her-huge-amounts-of-agency-intelligence-vulnerability-and-power-in-the-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Maggie Gyllenhaal empowers the bride of Frankenstein, giving her \u201chuge amounts of agency, intelligence, vulnerability and power,\u201d in \u201cTHE BRIDE!\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, watch \u201cTHE BRIDE!\u201d in cinemas and IMAX, starting March 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\" data-attachment-id=\"69898\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/entertainment\/movies-entertainment\/director-maggie-gyllenhaal-empowers-the-bride-of-frankenstein-giving-her-huge-amounts-of-agency-intelligence-vulnerability-and-power-in-the-bride\/attachment\/image-11-17\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,898\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image (11)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2-300x210.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2-1024x718.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2-1024x718.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69898\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2-1024x718.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2-768x539.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-11-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley in Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s \u201cThe Bride!\u201d<br>Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie Gyllenhaal was at a party when she had a spark of a brilliant idea for her next story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI saw this tattoo of the Bride of Frankenstein at a party and I thought, \u201cSomething about this character has captured our culture,\u2019\u201d says Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal. \u201cAnd I then went back and watched the movie [\u201cBride of Frankenstein\u201d (1935)]&nbsp; for the first time, because I had never seen it, and I found it really interesting that she\u2019s not really in it. I will say Elsa Lanchester makes a real impact. I mean, she\u2019s in it for three minutes, but she has somehow taken the culture by storm. But to be honest, she doesn\u2019t talk. She doesn\u2019t speak. She doesn\u2019t get an opportunity to express herself. And I thought it was an interesting puzzle. This guy [Frankenstein] understandably is so lonely looking for a mate. But then, just anyone will do, and bringing someone back who doesn\u2019t have any agency herself. So, what happens if you take that same format, that same story, but you give her a huge amount of agency, and give her a huge amount of need, and intelligence, and soulfulness, and vulnerability, and power? Then what happens? That seemed like a puzzle worth getting into.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch the trailer for \u201cThe Bride!\u201d:&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JI_BiGdqrDE\"><em>https:\/\/youtu.be\/JI_BiGdqrDE<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessie Buckley, who plays the film\u2019s titular character, describes \u201cThe Bride!\u201d as \u201cintense. It\u2019s a wild abandoned life force. It\u2019s passion on the brink. It\u2019s a revolution. It\u2019s a new language!\u201d says Buckley, who, this year, achieved her second Academy Award nomination, for her performance in \u201cHamnet.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s giving voice to The Bride who has never been given a voice before. She\u2019s not satisfied to just be reinvigorated as mate. She wants autonomy of the self. And goes on a journey to discover herself in this world so she can be fully in a relationship with Frank. She wants the full story. She can\u2019t be in a relationship that\u2019s half-full. She wants the whole truth, because I think once she\u2019s reborn, she demands absolute life, and absolute love. And it isn\u2019t perfect. It\u2019s a risk, y\u2019know to live and love like that! Our potential to do all sorts of things is huge, and the bride and frank do some fucked up things. But it isn\u2019t without consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-attachment-id=\"69899\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/entertainment\/movies-entertainment\/director-maggie-gyllenhaal-empowers-the-bride-of-frankenstein-giving-her-huge-amounts-of-agency-intelligence-vulnerability-and-power-in-the-bride\/attachment\/image-12-16\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image (12)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2-1024x682.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-12-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jessie Buckley as The Bride, and director Maggie Gyllenhaal on the set of \u201cThe Bride!\u201d<br>Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gyllenhaal is excited for movie audiences to see her latest film in cinemas, including on IMAX. \u201cInstead of having it be only this big world-building set piece, or this big action sequence, we instead decided to grow where it made sense emotionally,\u201d says Gyllenhaal in a new IMAX featurette for the film. \u201cWe built the expanding of the frame to coalesce with emotional shifts and changes. You feel it, like in your chest. It\u2019s got the roller coaster aspect that I think IMAX offers. But then it has this other aspect of cracking open your heart\u2026 It\u2019s trippy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch \u201cThe Bride! &#8211; The IMAX Experience\u201d here:&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ll84rJbCCEM\"><em>https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ll84rJbCCEM<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to see that,\u201d says Academy Award winner Christian Bale, who plays Frankenstein, in the same featurette.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experience a bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world\u2019s most compelling stories when \u201cThe Bride!\u201d opens only in cinemas March 4.&nbsp;<strong>#TheBrideMovie<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, watch \u201cTHE BRIDE!\u201d in cinemas and IMAX, starting March 4 Maggie Gyllenhaal was at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,943],"tags":[16686,16019,2311,16018,9007],"class_list":["post-69897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-movies-entertainment","tag-thebridemovie","tag-maggie-gyllenhaal","tag-movies","tag-the-bride","tag-warner-bros-pictures"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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