Emerald Fennell talks SALTBURN, KILLING EVE, ZATANNA I Happy Sad Confused

Emerald Fennell is two for two in her young filmmaking career. Her debut, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, earned her an Oscar and now with SALTBURN, she's made a BIG conversation starter featuring great performances and provocative subject matter once again. Here she chats with Josh about it all plus her work on KILLING EVE and that rumored ZATANNA film. #happysadconfused #joshhorowitz
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00:00 Introduction
02:07 Career plans
03:22 PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
05:40 Bo Burnham
06:24 Paris Hilton
07:42 Irony
09:03 Messy honesty
11:56 Shocking movies
16:05 Genesis of SALTBURN
20:35 Feeling envy
22:11 Being named Emerald
23:56 Early aspirations
24:58 KILLING EVE
30:41 ZATANNA
34:07 Path going forward
39:15 Actors to work with

[@JoshHorowitz]

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[@ethanholgate2512]

Saltburn is my favourite movie of the year I'm still blown away by it such an excellent film

[@15Candles]

I'm an Emerald Fennell fan right here!! So happy to see more 40 minutes Emerald interviews. She's batshit crazy with her work and I absolutely love her 😂

[@JuiceMyRandomness]

Saltburn… left me feeling so many things when the credits began to roll. Just like Promising Young Woman. Emerald has a talent for making things that linger on even after it has finished.

[@DallonJ]

I thought saltburn was a 10/10 masterpeice and anyone who thought it was empty, fluff or meh just had the genius fly over their heads imho.

[@alechats5184]

whats the genius in your opinion?

[@DallonJ]

@@alechats5184 the take on the power fantasy, the darker side of humanity, the dissected view of classism, charity and honesty. Using purposeful elements that are style over substance to make a self aware take on the essence of style over substance. An unnecessary plot twist, that reveals nothing new of the charactar that emphasises the egotistical voices that play into the idenity of overcompensating intellect. The narrative of wearing the clothes of an emperor doesnt mean you can control an empire. And not to mention the absolutely perfect performances of the actors conveying such minute details of the complexity of empathy, desire, trauma and madness. The cinematography is obviously on point. All the shallow techniques of the films fit into the theme of making fun of how shallow a lot of us really are. The film is very self aware. Also, its a genre that is actually very fresh. An emotional fantasy. Its not an accurate drama. Its not really a comedy. Its not even a thriller or physiological one. Its a conversation of emotional voices that exist within our class divide in england.

[@alechats5184]

@@DallonJ i guess i can't elaborate that much against that - i didnt like it, i thought the commentary of classism was kind of unexplored but just like very on the surface - and i see your point of this being self aware but i just thought it 1 didnt landed 2 wasnt interesting or compelling enough and 3 lead to nowhere. the ending seemed to me to be very dumb while being taken seriously which is funny to me outside of what the movie tries to imply so… and i also felt the movie was constantly trying to be very cool and sexy just because; the idea of how this communicates some sort of message about beauty and appearances, fell short to me and it almost felt as if emerald was just replicating a fantasy she had in her head, it didnt make me think it was intelligent or nuanced, it was just dumb posing as intelligent.

[@jessc5112]

@@alechats5184i interpreted the movie less as a social or class commentary and more of a tale of just pure obsession and desire. watching it as a movie abt someone so consumed w desire they spiral out of control trying to possess someones entire being and life when they realize theyll never have that person i thought it was really enjoyable in that lens. i think the only real commentary on wealth was the hollowness of it all.

[@TheEbo34]

First time i have heard of Emerald was this whirlwind about Saltburn these past few weeks but upon a quick wiki search and imdb glance, this is an enormously talented and accomplished woman already. An Oscar win for her first movie?? Wow, i'm a fan now and will be watching PYW and Saltburn after this.

[@sherryyeager4973]

Promising young woman is amazing!!

[@kookymoo]

Thankyou for bringing up Dracula! Definitely a theme I felt while watching this movie.

[@15Candles]

Despite the fact that she was way too pretty to play Camila (I can honestly say the same about Josh O'Connor as Charles 😂), she did a phenomenal job playing Camila. Probably one of the most overlooked talent in The Crown, not enough people talk about how good she was in playing Camila in The Crown

[@rosasingaria]

YES! I loved her as Camilla soooo much

[@marccardiff]

She did get an Emmy nomination for it, so hardly overlooked.

[@15Candles]

@@marccardiff Eventhough she got it, barely anyone talks about her role. I mean when it comes to The Crown, the most that people remember from the cast point are Claire Foy, Emma Corrin, Elizabeth Debicki, Matt Smith, Olivia Colman, and John Lithgow, these people have the most praise out of all of them yet it overshadowed the rest of the cast

[@user-ve1lz9dm6j]

Thank you Josh, another great interview with a very interesting film maker. Josh, rest a bit man, I am aware we had a couple of strikes this year, but , man, you work a lot, I mean, a lot. Go on vacation Josh, but not for very long , please. We need you.

[@jasonraschen1109]

Emerald Fennell is one of my favorite filmmakers working today. Great interview. Love the channel.

[@mauroespindola5101]

I just watched her two films and I fell in love with her! OMG !!!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I'm so happy the discourse that the trailer and the movie is generating.

[@verasambience]

Who else is on an Emerald Fennel bingewatch

[@amythackeray3378]

I wholeheartedly agree with Emerald on raisins. 😂

[@JuiceMyRandomness]

I have loved Emerald since Call The Midwife! Her career has gone in so many amazing directions. She will always be Patsy to me as her character was important. Now I can’t even predict all the amazing things she is going to do!

[@JuiceMyRandomness]

The fact that she mentioned The Dreamers and Secretary ❤❤❤ I have been in love with Louis Garrell since I was 13 lol

[@hallow_cat]

It's driving me crazy that she's so obsessive about the details (and fucking brilliant about it too) but somehow everyone missed that Low by Flo Rida came out after the setting of the movie... I can't wait to see what she does next though!

[@ameliacraiig4193]

Are you certain that scene featuring the 'Low' song wasn't set two years after 2006?

[@hallow_cat]

@@ameliacraiig4193 Fennell stated in multiple interviews that the movie is set in 2006-2007 (I think she may have meant this in a general sense, just around that time period). I could just be ignorant about how school terms work differently sometimes (and sometimes even within the same schools), but from everything I could gather (please let me know if I'm missing something, that happens easily and I don't know where else to look for info), it was probably just a slight flub. If anything that makes it more human and adds a sense of surrealism.

[@ameliacraiig4193]

@@hallow_cat I'm ignorant too. It could be an oversight by the director, but I personally wasn't irritated by it.😊

[@insulaarachnid]

Talking about crushing on characters you are not meant to, Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom in Con Air. Alan Rickman playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

[@amritsaluja5267]

She is a genius

[@jonathanokeefe9783]

'Melancholia', 'wibbly-wobbly', 'FUCK OFF!"...and that's just in the last 2 minutes. What a wild ride!

[@violamerjo8800]

οoh r we twin souls Emerald? love her!

[@violamerjo8800]

omg Fennell, listen to me, Matt Smith, Mads Mikkelsen, Callum Turner

[@shaileshsingh6196]

If you ever get to ask a question from Jacob about his character Felix …was there any alternate possibility where Felix would have kissed Oliver back ?

[@dnw9181]

💯❤👍👏👏👏👏👏

[@Nancy-sf2pl]

She was trying to say Skyler Gisondo!!!

[@theplourde]

Nothing about Ana de Armas bringing her on to work on a little bit of the “Ballerina” John wick spin off?

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

I'd love to see her do like a Elsa Bloodstone movie for Marvel

[@vokasimid5330]

Josj Horowitz rule again!

[@punpun-ya]

a real shame about her Zatanna, I trust whatever she would do and would've been cool to see

[@gingernightmare9152]

8 ad breaks make this unwatchable