‘Saltburn’: Rosamund Pike’s Dive Into Eccentricity & The “Delicious” Work Of Emerald Fennell: “It Was Really Fun To Be Able To Live Inside That Skin”
deadline.comAs Elspeth Catton, Saltburn’s bohemian but bloodless matriarch, Rosamund Pike strikes an unnervingly accurate note as the crushingly careless mother of Jacob Elordi’s character Felix.
When Felix brings home Oliver (Barry Keoghan), his apparently lame duck of a new friend from Oxford University, Elspeth is delighted to add a new tragic case to her collection of playthings.
Already among them is Carey Mulligan’s lost soul character, Poor Dear Pamela — an old friend on the run from a messy breakup with a Russian oligarch.
Here, Pike pays tribute to the world created by writer-director Emerald Fennell, and its unpredictable outcome. DEADLINE: As a Brit like you, I’ve been waiting for someone to skewer this upper-class world for so long — there are rules that you’re never told, and if you figure out what they are, they change into something else, so you are never allowed to fit in or get it right. ROSAMUND PIKE: No.
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