The writer, director and actor discusses her new film, working with Barry Keoghan and the seductiveness of Oxford.
Emerald Fennell drew inspiration for ‘Saltburn’ from her days at Oxford University. ‘I wanted to go not just for the education, but because it just felt magical.’is a gothic tale of privilege and obsession among classmates from Oxford University, the British filmmaker’s alma mater. Under the school’s exalted stone and spires are students lying and envying and pretending in a twisted garden of earthly delights.
The film, opening November 22 and written, directed and produced by Fennell, stars Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, an awkward outsider who befriends a popular rich kid at school and spends the summer after graduation at the classmate’s imposing family estate in the country.She was a villain, then an icon.
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