The idea for Emerald Fennell’s debut movie Promising Young Woman came to her in a single image: while a seemingly drunk woman is being bothered by a man, she turns the tables by suddenly sitting up, stone-cold sober, and asking, “What are you doing?” This happens quite a few times in her film, which sees college dropout Cassie (Carey Mulligan) taking revenge on the kind of men that sexually abused her best friend in college, leading to her suicide.It sounds like a vigilante movie, but Fennell’s movie is much more subtle.
And funny, too. Speaking during Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event, Fennell says, “I was very lucky to have the brilliant Carey, who is just so much the backbone of this film, and who makes the tonal changes and
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