Actress Carey Mulligan has collaborated with female directors, including Sarah Gavron (“Suffragette”) and Dee Rees (“Mudbound”).
On Saturday night at the Sundance Film Fest, she unveiled Promising Young Woman, a thriller written and directed by Emerald Fennell, about a heroine out for revenge after experiencing a traumatic abuse.
“I’d never read anything like it,” Mulligan said during an interview. “Reading it for the first time, sort of made me nervous in a really good way, in a way that makes me excited to be part of something.”
Fennell served as the showrunner for the second season of “Killing Eve,” and she’s making her debut as a movie director with “Promising Young Woman.”
“Promising Young Woman” opens in theaters on April 17 from Focus Features.