ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Alice, Darling director Mary Nighy about her feature directorial debut.
director Mary Nighy about her feature directorial debut. Nighy spoke about how acting informed her directing style and her plans of working on a project with her father.
On that set, I wrote my first short film and I came back to the U.K. and shot it that summer. On the basis of that, someone else over here, a producer, watched it and gave me money to make my second short film. And on the back of that, I went to the National Film and Television school over here to train as a director. So it was pretty early on, really. I just carried on acting while I was making short films at the same time.
Because I do think that the environment in which one works — and I’d say this is true of crew members and in post-production as much as it is during shooting — really can impact whether people do their best work or not. Also the kinds of direction that I was receiving as an actor, like notes that would be very, very abstract. I think one director said to me, “In this scene, you are like innocence portrayed.
I did a lot of preparation in remote over Zoom with the director of photography, Mike McLaughlin. He and I were able to develop a whole language through long Zoom calls and sharing lots of references and films that we loved and talking about the visual language, but it’s not quite the same as meeting that person and walking around the locations with them and looking at the spaces. So I think that was a real challenge.
I think it’s very contemporary. I feel like we’ve seen films where the antagonist is very aggressive and the abusive partner is terrifying, but it really feels quite modern to see somebody describe themself as the victim when, in fact, they are the person who’s controlling the partner. Simon is the one who’s controlling Alice. He’s the one who’s taking away her autonomy, who’s gaslighting her.
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