Emerald Fennell has watched her fair share of revenge films — but she hadn't ever seen one that felt realistic. So she set out to make one herself with Promising Young Woman. "I wanted to make a revenge movie that felt like it was from the point of view of a real woman thathad both the deliciousness of the genre as well as the reality of what vengeance is and what grief is,"Fennell told THR's Bryn Sandberg during The Hollywood Reporter Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media.
It all started withan image Fennell couldn't get the scene out of her head. Ayoung woman is lying in a bed, seemingly drunk, as a man starts removing her clothes without her permission.
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