EXCLUSIVE: Brit scribe Rebecca Frayn, whose latest feature is the Keira Knightley-starring Misbehaviour which hits UK cinemas next week, is set to direct Spies, based on her father’s 2002 Whitbread…
, Frayn said that she had been seeking the chance to helm her first feature for a while, and credited the #MeToo movement with opening up opportunities for women.
“I have always hoped to direct a feature. Until very recently only 7% of directors were women, it has been very hard to get into the room,” she said. “It’s thrilling and extraordinary how much that is changing post-#MeToo. A lot of my male director friends feel marginalized in a way that is quite shocking. I think it’s systematic change, rather than a vogue-ish thing that will be overturned.
The long-gestation of the film was due to a lack of appetite for female-focused product, said Frayn, “I’ve always tried to tell stories of women with agency. Suzanne and I went to distributors and although they would pay lip service to gender issues, you could see there was a dead look behind their eyes and it wouldn’t fly.”
“It’s been a ten year labor of love to find people who would back us. After #MeToo, the sense that the film was marginal was completely overturned, it suddenly got momentum and became a zeitgeist project. Films from the women’s gaze are finding their market, we’ll see what happens withFrayn said that collaborating with her author father had been a “new experience” but the pair had gotten into the swing of it after initially feeling self-conscious.
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