She was just wonderfully warm as well as hard-working.” She had doughnuts delivered for the whole crew. “And she set a really lovely, friendly tone. Just endlessly energetic and imaginative and intelligent. I got to go for 10 separate days to the set and be there hour after hour in the little tent listening in and watching on the monitor.”ĭescribing Pugh as “tireless”, Donoghue added: “She would do a take 20 times if needs be. She told PA: “What was lovely was that I actually got to watch her work. I had to adjust to a bit of the schizophrenic weather but apart from that, I loved the people and I had a great, great team.”ĭonoghue, who also co-wrote the screenplay for The Wonder, praised Pugh for the positivity she brought to the set. Talking about shooting on location in Ireland, he said: “I really loved filming in Ireland. Kila Lord Cassidy and Elaine Cassidy (Ian West/PA) That relationship, that transgenerational sorority that takes place there, I thought it was a really unique type of relationship to portray in a film.” “That was really interesting and also I really loved the two women at the centre, the nurse and the girl. Reason versus fanaticism sounded really like what is going on in our world today. “I thought that made it a very timely story of today. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl, who is said to have survived without food for months, as the film explores if the village is harbouring a saint “surviving on manna from heaven” or if there are more ominous motives at work.ĭescribing what drew him to the project, Lelio told PA: “I loved the novel and I really liked the fact it explored this condition between science and religion, between fact and fantasy, reason and magical thinking. Pugh plays an English nurse who is brought to a tiny village to observe 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell, a young girl who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. ![]() Set in the Irish midlands in 1862, the psychological thriller is inspired by the 19th century phenomenon of the “fasting girls”.
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