Rita Hayworth

Um-

No, no, it, it wasn't, and when we look back, we talk about Betty Grable or Rita Hayworth or Marilyn Monroe.

Mm-hmm.

And, and, and today it's, it's more like, because of Playboy magazine and, and the men's magazines today and all that, it's like, no, these were, these were, these were famous actresses at the time, and they were, they were, you know, Midwestern girls with a n- a great body, and they were.

empathic side to her which really draws people as well and you know I was thinking because we're not given much on her in the film much of her interiority there is that danger that she could come off as kind of smarmy because you know those really are her two sides is very strong-willed career woman and very vulnerable empathic woman who just draws these men in because of that vulnerability.

And I think Jean Tierney's genius is the fact that she has this ability to project interiority through her micro expressions there is just something that's just so deeply spiritual if that doesn't sound too corny about her beauty and and just the strength of the character that she projects so you know when i'm watching it i'm like absolutely i completely buy that everyone who crosses this woman's path is obsessed with her because she has that you know kind of charisma and it really is a special kind of charisma that she has to project there because you know i love rita hayworth i love so many of those other classic era actresses i really think only tyranny could have pulled that weird combination of strength and vulnerability yeah no you're so right i'm sorry to talk over you that was very rude of me

But I do think you're right, because like I'm going through my head of other actresses of the era that I absolutely love.

And you're right, Rita Hayworth, it would have been too sexual, would have been too sort of like consumptive, you know, like she's a man eater.

If you had Barbara Stanwyck in the role, it would be too conniving.

She'd be too smart.

fitchcock

a lot of kind of noir um a lot of rita hayworth alpine set thrillers from the era as well that kind of post-war there was a very the very particular genre very masculine post-war thrillers written by men and before then kind

of

ian fleming eric ambler ham on dinners wrote a brilliant book called the lonely skier but you know they're doing a very specific thing and i thought i want to I want to sort of interact with that world as well and take these two little old ladies and put them at the heart of that and see what that does.

It's quite a hard thing to say for the character of Sylvia.

So obviously Marilyn Monroe, also Ava Gardner, also Rita Hayworth.

I mean, there are so many there, but so many of these women were sort of thrust into the spotlight but were had often had a pretty rough road to get there and were struggling with all sorts of issues um kind of past trauma um abuse um uh substance issues um and so I think I sort of want the reader to bring to it what what they kind of see but I think for me it was sort of her the ghosts from her past um it was and I mean that in the terms of people but also things that she's experienced and also going into really dark territory here but her kind of depression and she is sort of hiding parts of herself that she hasn't been able to kind of give full full reign to and so this the pressure I think of fitting into this sort of silver screen siren image you know is starting to take its toll i'm so glad you asked that julia because

i was wanting to ask

Not only did she read nearly 100 Christie books, but she also read only books from that period.

She pulled from Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, and Ava Gardner to craft a glamorous, tortured actress.

She watched Alfred Hitchcock movies.

She listened to a dark and moody Miles Davis soundtrack while she wrote.

Not only did she read nearly 100 Christie books, but she also read only books from that period.

She pulled from Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, and Ava Gardner to craft a glamorous, tortured actress.

She watched Alfred Hitchcock movies.

She listened to a dark and moody Miles Davis soundtrack while she wrote.

Isn't it

like, let's say like a, not Glinda or something like that, but like Rita Hayworth or something.

Yeah, it's from the 20s.

I forget what it's called.