{"id":320256,"date":"2026-02-27T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320256\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:03:11","slug":"jessie-buckley-says-she-loved-giving-the-bride-of-frankenstein-a-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320256\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Buckley says she \u2018loved\u2019 giving the Bride of Frankenstein a voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-winning Irish actress Jessie Buckley has said she \u201cloved\u201d giving the Bride of Frankenstein a voice after the character was largely silenced in the original film.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old stars alongside Christian Bale in Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s horror film The Bride!, which follows Frankenstein (Bale) as he travels back to 1930s Chicago to ask scientist Dr Euphronious to create a companion by reviving a murdered young woman, The Bride (Buckley).<\/p>\n

The upcoming film is inspired by the 1935 original The Bride Of Frankenstein which starred Elsa Lanchester.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the film\u2019s world premiere in London, Buckley told the Press Association: \u201cElsa Lanchester is on screen for about three minutes in the 1935 version, and she makes such an impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cStill people dress up at Halloween as her, but she doesn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s on the precipice of it, she wants to say something. And I think that was Maggie\u2019s first curiosity \u2013 what if this woman has something to say?<\/p>\n

\"JessieJessie Buckley at The Bride! world premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square, central London (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be able to give voice to that \u2018what if\u2019 and to really find all the colours of that curiosity and self-discovery and voice, and let the things that maybe have been silenced or we didn\u2019t give ourselves permission to say at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can only imagine, I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buckley recently picked up the leading actress Bafta award for her portrayal of Agnes in Chloe Zhao\u2019s film adaptation of Hamnet.<\/p>\n

\"TheDirector, writer and producer Maggie Gyllenhaal at The Bride! world premiere in London (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

The Bride! was written and directed by Gyllenhaal, who emphasised the need for new voices to take the reins behind the camera in order for new stories to be told.<\/p>\n

She told PA: \u201cSomeone told me recently that only 7% of the movies made last year were made by women, but so many of the movies we are talking about this year are those 7%.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that people are interested in a new voice and a new perspective and a new language, and when you let different people behind the camera, you will get something new.<\/p>\n

\"ChristianChristian Bale attends The Bride! world premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone says they want something new, well, then different people have to make the movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gyllenhaal was behind the film adaptation of Elena Ferrante\u2019s The Lost Daughter, which also starred Buckley along with Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Paul Mescal.<\/p>\n

The Bride!, which also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penelope Cruz, will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from March 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Award-winning Irish actress Jessie Buckley has said she \u201cloved\u201d giving the Bride of Frankenstein a voice after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-320256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}