Autumn de Wilde, the director of Focus Featres’ “Emma,” flew home to Los Angeles on Thursday night after a London work trip and began a 15-day self-quarantine at a friend’s bungalow.
Though not usually a nervous flier nor a germaphobe, de Wilde said she’d had a “stressful” flight because of her anxiety about coronavirus. “I was definitely feeling like the invisible enemy was getting to me,” she told Variety on Friday.
Before nearly every movie theater in the U.S. closed, “Emma” was doing quite well at the box office. De Wilde’s adaptation of the 1815 Jane Austen novel had a limited release over the weekend of Feb.
21, then expanded the next two weekends, making more than $10 million domestically and $15 million internationally. Then, the
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