Rage, reckoning come to forefront in ‘Promising Young Woman’ Before #MeToo became ubiquitous, Emerald Fennell was thinking about complacency and the teen movies of her youth where consent was often little more than a throwaway jokeEmerald Fennell wanted to write about female rage. That’s when the idea for her audacious debut “ Promising Young Woman,” out Friday, started to take shape. And her protagonist Cassie, played by Carey Mulligan, would be the scariest of all avengers: A real woman. Fennell knew Mulligan wouldn’t fight to make her nice. “I never for a moment felt like it was her first film,” Mulligan said.

Source: ABC News December 23, 2020 19:09 UTC