Emerald Fennell Breaks Down 'Saltburn' and Defends Jacob Elordi's Eyebrow Piercing | Freeze Frame

[@IsAbElGoNzAlEz9829]

The fact the Olivers dad rock didn’t land in the water was foreshadowing him still being alive

[@Karin_Allen]

And the fact that it landed in a pile of bottles and vomit foreshadows something too!

[@MilesToGoGo]

Oh yeaaaaaaaa. This is one of those movies that makes me wanna go back and watch it again because I’m sure there’s so many other similar details that I didn’t catch the first time around

[@rurathn5534]

wow good job mr obvious

[@kayleyholland5655]

@@Karin_Allen I think it foreshadows that all the stories about his parents being alcoholics and dying because of it was just false.

[@JVOL77]

🤯

[@MJ-mn9qk]

The eyebrow piercing made him immediately hotter and was such a good choice to show his attempt at rebellion and distaste from being pretty rich Golden boy

[@helenalovelock1030]

Yes deffo and that he’s not allowed to wear it at home

[@serpentinaeofficial]

100%

[@pamelamccall5653]

Gross

[@fareshajjar1208]

Worthless writer/director redid Talented Mr. Ripley, with outlandish and even more derivative convolutions that altogether equal a stupid movie that strains credulity. Supposedly the guy can just kill people by talking to them. Where did he get the poison used in the maze and wouldn't that be one of the first things the cops would check for? Stupid. About 50 questions like that. She tried to make a mystery by tricking the viewer and omitting key scenes. Agatha Christie you ain't! Dumb writer just skating from one shock scene to the next to try to make a name for herself. Hey DEI hire: "Gross sex scenes are not a substitute for talent."

[@MJ-mn9qk]

@@fareshajjar1208 if you don’t get b*tches you can just say that man

[@mckenziebaker7604]

i could watch a whole 4 hour long video of her taking and giving notes about this movie

[@beewilson7144]

The eyebrow piercing is fierce and an amazing choice for the character and time period.

[@perry5509]

I love how everything in this film is a backhanded compliment. She takes the blanket, which is romantic, but leaving him freezing. She calls him real, inferring he’s hot but also lower class, looking at him like a piece of meat… I guess the beauty of this film is they all f**k with him thinking they’ll get nothing back… and then they do

[@jac7198]

i love this. but what i also love is even tho, however real is a metapjor for low class and its indeed a backhanfed complimtent, its also acknowledging that they arent real at all. tjey are constantly putting up a play. a play of being dreadfully casual and relaxed, when in fact theyre not. theyre really old school and uptied. but to come across as more real people they ACT that they are casual. oliver is just what he is (which is so powerful because later we come to know He is but an act too). yet venisha is kind of acknowledging that oliver just is what he is, no mystery. vulnerable, emotional, not relaxed at all. but he is showing everything, he is showing them all the little emotions and the little nerves someone feels. while their act of casualness also aenables them to hide any sort of raw emotion, or pain, or harshness of life. it makes them othetworldy; not fazed by life

[@sovupo]

It's just the modern play on Victorian slumming (where we get the phrase slumming it!) Shows that the concept of rich voyeurs of the poor has never gone away.

[@FernandaHaiabe]

It was a delight to watch this interview. She talks about the story, characters and cinematography with such passion, it’s inspiring. Can’t wait to watch Saltburn!

[@jakestroll6518]

Just watched it and now watching this interview explains why she was completely unable to say anything about class or even race in England despite setting up that very commentary. She’s clearly raised upper class herself and is unable to tear up the system she benefits from in real life.

[@mathildaharrison3284]

she describes her characters with so much understanding so sick i had to google half the words she used - tart boudouir is my fav

[@kkickks]

which words?

[@d4c155]

its because, ironically, she is one of the boarding school posh kids this movie makes fun of

[@kkickks]

@@d4c155 simply because she is well-spoken?

[@okapibibi]

@@kkickks Because she is actually posh. Her father is a jewellery designer and her mother is author. Her sister, Coco Fennell, is a fashion designer. She went to Marlborough College, a private school and then studied English at Greyfriars, Oxford. She's definitely well-spoken, but given her history, of course she would be.

[@kkickks]

@@okapibibi didnt know that - and i totally agree with ya. pot calling the kettle black?

[@MilesToGoGo]

Everyone’s performance was stellar but Rosemund Pike was my absolute favorite part of this move. She was absolute perfection 🤌

[@laurramore]

I don't remember the last time I was so caught off guard but fascinated by a movie. Im actually considering watching it again - so good

[@keiraelise6234]

Same. I watched it a few days ago at home and looked up where the closest theatre is showing it so I can see the film in all it's glory properly. Luckily I'm catching the last screening in a few days time!

[@sp-1973]

I've watched it 3 times now, and will probably see it again! ❤❤❤

[@kettlecorn5000]

if you haven’t watched it again i totally recommend. the second watch for me was even better than the first because of all the details i knew to lookout for!

[@pam0626]

The way Emerald talks about the art on the walls is fascinating. That care and level of detail and layering of the interiors helps the viewer sublimely absorb Saltburn and the people who live inside.

[@ryan_lu-y8w]

You are seriously all brainwashed

[@noligray5828]

"He knows the effect he has on people, and he is sort of comfortable, playing with this effect. " What a fantastic description. We all know people like that. I was always trying to describe it (to tame it) and I finally found the description here. :)

[@dani-ol5xb]

This movie was better than I expected and all the extra details/foreshadowing made it so much more enjoyable

[@kikochan_]

Eyebrow piercings were HOT in 2006. Totally the right call!

[@ll_been]

I actually quite liked the fact that we met Felix w the eyebrow stud and saw the Saltburn version of him as a dichotomy

[@Creativity.Stream]

So funny-back in the late '90s and early '00s, I was obsessed with men who wore their Carhartts so long that the cuff draped over their work boots and frayed at the heel. In retrospect, the calculated signaling-I'm a maker and an artist, and I don't mind being messy-was obvious. But I fell for it hook, line, and sinker back then. Thank you, Emerald, for Saltburn. It has solidly landed in my list of favorite movies of all time. I was blown away!

[@beowulfcadmus2343]

My initial reaction to seeing the eyebrow piercing... " ooo, I like that "

[@melissamackenzie973]

I would let this woman direct me through a hallway ❤

[@rachelaperera]

😂 I just want her to narrate my whole life

[@mirandawilkins2786]

Please give us 4 more hours of her breaking down all the carefully thought choices for the characters and this film!

[@lisargiles]

Saltburn for ALL the Oscars! Emerald Fennell is genius!

[@gitanjalisingh777]

did we watch the same film?

[@illogical001]

@@gitanjalisingh777Are you so pressed because she’s a woman? Heads up, American Psycho was also made by women. 😉

[@ducklyn77]

@@gitanjalisingh777isnt it funny how opinions exist

[@gitanjalisingh777]

@@ducklyn77 no its not

[@ryan_lu-y8w]

Lol you need to read more books and see more films. For starters, saltburn is just re-dressed Mr. Ripley. Good lord, whotf cares, an eyebrow ring? Stroke of genius!

[@annwe6]

Duncan the butler mystified me at first, but then I heard Fennnell explain in another interview how he symbolized Saltburn itself, the 400 year old house the drama played out in. Duncan was all seeing, all knowing, and yet ultimately powerless as he watched the fateful events playout. He knew Oliver didn't belong there. I don't think Oliver will hold on to the happiness he thinks he has at the end of the movie. He can never really possess any of the people or places or lifestyles he lusted after, because he will never truly belong.

[@s.ktrinityinkltd2515]

I agree

[@aliciablock9181]

I've watched it 7 times. It's so fun to go back and catch certain things you didnt before.

[@vitaflood6677]

this movie left me with my jaw on the floor obsessed SO good

[@aap2310]

Saltburn is easily the best film of the year. Best director best screenplay, best actor -Barry. The best film in a long time. I had my eyebrow pierced in 1995 btw I'm old.

[@azovandy14.88]

Lol best movie, she already got her undeserved Oscar love with her first film which wasn’t nearly as terrible as this but even a great cast couldn’t save this heap of trash.

[@yafriendceko]

not when Oppenheimer exist

[@KingMeeqs]

Anatomy of a Fall clears

[@viviennedunbar3374]

@@azovandy14.88this is a fantastic movie, the humour in it was hilarious. But I am a Brit with an American husband so I understood all the British Literary and dramatic troupes she was playing with. This is the anti-Brideshead.

[@azovandy14.88]

@@viviennedunbar3374 great you enjoyed it but I’m not alone in thinking it was a poorly done ripoff of the talented Mr Ripley.

[@rayanneflorence1830]

I was sad when the eyebrow piercing disappeared she’s right it made him hotter

[@penlennon3576]

Fantastic film, beautifully shot and the lighting, rooms and colours were superb

[@lifetheslowway]

omg this family and all the costumes and personalities so remind me of my own British family who are of that class. it may seem over the top but it’s insanely accurate.

[@madeline4706]

Can I stay at yours for the Summer?

[@ll_been]

There are so many things to unpack in this movie- and I think it is so worth rewatching after seeing til the end

[@jonnowocky8179]

Thought this film was great fun, sinister, funny, very well shot and filled with style, Emerald is a real talent

[@paolamiano]

the beauty of jacob. so true bestie fennel

[@lizziehoodfleming]

An amazing film! This woman is a genius

[@steven3814]

Her voice is soo soothing. I could fall alseep to it.

[@hanscombe72]

I’m showing my mother this after church next week. She loves these English comedies of manners!

[@sandrahatherley2184]

It's certqinly not a comedy of manners/ Better warn her about the erotic scenes, Not really an after church movie

[@hanscombe72]

I know. I was joking darling.

[@VamLoveAndKisses]

Keep her heart medication nearby 😅

[@TheMymlan]

What a delightful idea! How did it go? Did she love it? 😁

[@anrhmn]

I've recently come across Fennell's work and she gives me what I didn't know I needed😂

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

I keep thinking the dinner jacket thing was almost a slip up by Ollie. He says he could have brought one. I believe that’s because the one he wore at school was something he actually owned. Not a rental. Just something he could afford to own, but never got perfectly tailored. And obviously didn’t wear with French cuff shirts. Bc he is in fact NOT POOR. Just not an aristocrat.

[@esme5599]

the producers that didn’t like the eyebrow piercing made such a mistake

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

And yeeetttttt……… it added a certain important element. That Felix had to hide himself from his parents too. Not just Ollie pretending.

[@rickthatmorty2338]

If her only description was “the girls that get it,get it and the girls that don’t,don’t “ I’d still be blown away

[@Westlake72]

0:42 I felt that Elsbeth phobia was a clue that she herself had been sexualy abused as a child (presumably by someone with facial hair) and that this partly explained her complete coldness to other human beings.

[@eros6472]

Did you feel that anything else hinted towards this?

[@jzpat]

In honestly thought something similar to.. weirdly enough I thought someone with a beard must have forced themselves down there on her lol.

[@helenalovelock1030]

Yes I thought this too

[@lorna5662]

I thought it too.

[@hahna77]

While that is an entirely possible part of her character history, as it is very common in these sort of families, I don't believe the comment was an indicator, but instead just a way of showing how judgemental she is of others and how ridoculous it is that she has no qualms whatsover with expecting others to change themselves to meet her expectations.

[@gio_ser5120]

Superb movie, loved it. It won’t get any Oscars but best movie of the year

[@noligray5828]

"...nightmarish rule, that people like this generally have, which is: all is totally fine and cool as long as you do exaclty what we say in exactly the way we need you to. " I feel like almost every British person in Britain is like exactly like that.

[@tbszach]

i need to watch the rest of her films omg

[@a.m4863]

I thought it was cool that Rosmund played a crazy calculated character in Gone Girl then in Saltburn she plays a rich naive victim. Shows how talented she really is

[@flyinghow]

I love Saltburn (especially Rosamund)! And you were excellent in The Crown!

[@haret0n]

absolutely loved this film

[@Sunnyso24]

The eyebrow piercing was it!! I can’t believe they fought you on that. I kind of want it to come back.

[@Thecoolesttdy]

Thank you so much Ms fennell for the eyebrow piercing you so tirelessly worked for. Gone too soon. 😢

[@gossipmongersaunt774]

I want to know more about all the ‘accidental’ deaths when people leave saltburn. And what happened to the boys Felix took home the previous years. Farley called him silly boy when he got with the sister, but why?

[@hanscombe72]

It’s not that he got with Venetia. It’s he got caught by someone. Farliegh hated the fact that there was an outsider and so Oliver played right into his hands by getting caught.

[@gossipmongersaunt774]

@@hanscombe72 what happened to the boy Felix took home the previous year? It was suggested that it was a regular thing?

[@annieliina]

​@@gossipmongersaunt774 i don't think anything terrible happened to him. he was probably lower class and got ostracized by all the rich people after the summer so the cattons never had to hear from him again

[@asgo7320]

Does she talk about the ending? Like were the flashbacks real or was Oliver lying to the audience. Did he really plan all of that? I would love to hear her talk about it.

[@dama5053]

It was weird how Felix wasn’t allowed an eyebrow piercing in the house but Venetia could smoke at the dinner table. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Lavendermanzana]

You can’t see the damage the smoke does inside. But piercings you can see their damage.

[@jenjones90]

​@@Lavendermanzanasmoke would damage the house though.

[@ll_been]

Tis the gift that keeps on giving this holiday

[@JasKhalid]

My new favourite female director

[@kismit100]

Great film loved it ❤

[@Zanz0vida]

The eyebrow piercing was hot as hell the producers were dead wrong

[@katebriscoe6103]

Jacob’s representation of an upper class British public school boy is so accurate in absolutely every way

[@amma1666]

god i do so love being in rapture of directors talking about their scenes and then noticing that esquire added some digital vhs pausing animtaion to it while they are talking >_

[@hackedy9834]

I could listen to Emerald Fennel explain an entire movie as long as it would take.

[@noligray5828]

Studied casualness. I find everything studied here, every human interaction. Studied rather than natural. (And I LOVE how the film is showing it sooo well.)

[@irenea.]

I loved this movie!

[@SoneBlink]

Emerald is a brilliant and beautiful woman.

[@da96103]

And we all complained that Nicholas did not warn Rachel in Crazy Rich Asians.

[@meru5389]

Just watched the movie. So good. So weird

[@ThePoppydee]

Ms Fennel you have the amazing gift of being able to read a room this is why you are truly amazing.

[@NJTCOMET]

Ms. Parker Bowles did an excellent job on this film.

[@gorey4more837]

Am I the only one who thought of Brideshead Revisited when they first saw a trailer of Saltburn? If googled it says that this is the latest incarnation of that story by Evelyn Waugh. If that's true why is that fact never mentioned? Just curious as to what others thought of this.

[@mmarr17]

i began watching this film with brideshead in mind. i definitely remember seeing an article or two about there being another adaptation of brideshead, probably just exaggeration by the media haha. fennell was definitely inspired by brideshead though. she talks about her influences briefly in another interview. there were definitely elements of brideshead in the film

[@cassiecarpenter]

Eyebrow piercings are very nineties, actually. I remember all the scars it would create on my friends 😬

[@foggyvhs8790]

having to fight with production for a visual choice is interesting

[@ll_been]

Does anyone know what she was saying about how they shot the night scenes with moonlight? I can’t seem to understand the term or google it

[@DinkyDollie]

Yes! So in film and tv shooting “night for night” means actually filming at night time whereas a lot of the time they can shoot “day for night” which means filming a little earlier in the day to avoid night shoots for maybe budget or time restrictions etc and it can be colour graded to look like its night

[@ll_been]

@@DinkyDollie THANK YOU!!!! 🤓

[@joenathanhoagland3532]

SO GOOD

[@jayr3053]

Loved this movie!

[@steveeb9567]

More volume please.

[@user-ui5sn3cc6h]

Loved e eyebrow piercing

[@DARWINZOO]

❤ director ❤

[@TheGenXMel]

OMG GIRL. I was in a homeless shelter when I first watched Call the midwife! A Jesuit one, at that. You made my knickers steam.

[@migonbrah]

Definitely not a fan of piercings at all but it worked well with the character.

[@xamurai00]

I had an eyebrow piercing back in 2004 .. it was all the rage..

[@StarPanda7]

2007 eye brow ring was the hottest!

[@lorim521]

Spot on with the eyebrow piercing.

[@LuxLisbon26]

Oh good lord. Hearing that 06/07 is period was like a punch to the gut! Realizing that 06/07 was almost too!

[@angelicaramirez9674]

How were they the class of ‘06 but that was the summer of ‘07? What did I miss

[@dcrowley69]

They started in 2006.

[@casc0006]

I thought it was funny Felix loaned Oliver an old dinner jacket. Felix is at least a 42Long. Whereas, Oliver may be a 38Small. My point is that Felix small size most likely happened when he was a freshman in high school(9th) grade.🎉

[@basm620inbelair9]

They were all great, but Rosamund Pike stole the friggin’ show!

[@BLINDTUBEMARES]

Her description of the house and it's constant surveillance, via servants etc calls to mind what it may have been like going to spend a weekend with the Epsteins- as prey or predator

[@annabarr1304]

The eyebrow piecing was very 2006

[@Mapqwerry]

She is whip-smart. Double threat of actor and director. The only celeb that I want to listen to. She is actually educated! Oxford. Unlike the rest of the vapid and vacuous influencers and actors from Los Angeles.

[@zahrahannah5928]

maybe read this one back to yourself and question whether you really understood the themes of the film here...? posh, educated and european - this is what youre praising her for?

[@Mapqwerry]

@@zahrahannah5928smart, talented and educated, is she not? Compare her to Amber Heard or Jennifer Lawrence, they are not even in the same intellectual stratosphere as Ms. Emerald. I certainly don’t want to hear those two discuss the geopolitical connotation to the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD within the 20th century. Bleaching their hair, perhaps…

[@mandisamoonz]

the point of this whole movie has gone right over your head... but go off! because all women are dumb if they haven't gone to oxford 😘

[@RK-ep8qy]

@@Mapqwerry it takes talent to miss irony twice. Emerald completed her oxford BA in English, not film making or the arts so you're basically appaulding her going to Oxford, not the education itself, which is interesting. As is your need to pit women against each other.

[@Mapqwerry]

Are you in community college for 10th year in the US or some Brit who failed his/her GCSE? I am sorry that you equate comparing an educated woman like Emerald against the moronic idiots like Amber Heard who didn’t finish high school as pitting women against another. I don’t want to hear the political view of someone who has less education than Greta Thurberg. I like Emerald because is educated, smart and talented. Probably unlike you.

[@smokinjoestalin]

Was the 2 hats on the bust when u walk into salburn a reference to Johnny 2 hats of mighty boosh fame?

[@melissasmith-uk5uf]

I watched a video where she said that when they looked at house for filming this house had loads of hats on the artwork and that's when she said she knew the house was perfect for the film and then she kept them on the filming

[@yearofthedragonjane]

I am just realizing the razor felix left for him in the bathroom...........

[@jacobmcewan268]

It’s a pretty grim and weird film but I think everyone enjoyed it very captivating weird tho

[@noligray5828]

Did Oliver really come down to Venetia, to check if she is ok??Was he concerned about her? I doubt it... :))) Would he come, seeing the old servant standing there? Would he be concerned? (On the other hand, Venetia being there like that, fitted perfeclty in my vampire family theory, that appeared in my head when I was watching the film.)

[@fernandarosenbrock9708]

I was NOT a eyebrow piercing fanatic… until I watched this movie, so hot

[@esapov]

my baby jacobbb

[@xoxoevol8682]

What happened with the moms friend ?

[@nicolems]

She died

[@noligray5828]

"The moment you meet them, they just take your power away." Again, only if you belong to this culture. I see it a lot at work, where all the British are being disarmed this way, and it has no effect on non-British. Or, the non-British find it offensive, suspicious, they see the intention plainly as obvious, etc. I would have never taken this kind of interaction as wormth. I would have found it artificial and I would have immediately think: what do you want from me? You don't know me at all, you were just talking about me behind my back, why are you acting like this now? To cover it up?

[@LadyScaper]

So, in this house, if someone unpacked for me, would there be judgement that I fold my clothes in Marie Kondo style? 🤣🤣🤣

[@kirstysimpson4165]

I can see this movie being a GCSE literature piece soon

[@Monalisa1503]

Full frontal nudity at the end…

[@marknewbold2583]

It's not a book or a play or a poem

[@snehapradhan5591]

❤

[@adelaidedupont9017]

Superbad! I thought there were films that Felix was in with his friends...

[@dantecrottogini529]

Why was the film set in 2006?

[@snowskatesnow]

Why not, what a weird thing to question 😂

[@dantecrottogini529]

@@snowskatesnow There has to be a reason for it. Look how much thought is put into every other choice. I guess it's so that social media doesn't play a role but I don't know if there's something else to it

[@jonnowocky8179]

I know right, if only it was set in 2005

[@hkr6573]

she mentioned a few reasons in another video. emerald herself was at oxford around this time so i think it gave her a time period to draw from. she also mentioned that it was 15 years ago from when they filmed and some reasoning as to why that was important. also mentioned that 2007 was the last year people were allowed to smoke indoors

[@sarascheeres7025]

So enthralled by this film was I, I didn’t realise the time! Half past three during final exams…

[@esme5599]

do you guys think margot robbie was one of the producers that said no to the eyebrow piercing

[@nicolems]

Wait she co produced?!

[@MuMu-fu7qe]

Saltburn was in theaters? Kill me now I missed it! Thought it was made for Netflix 😢

[@BryceChillis]

I hope this director isn’t discouraged by this movie, she has potential!