Elliot smith autumn de wilde6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() He's going to be bossing her around a lot," de Wilde says. In fact, she throws in a surprising bit of nudity when we watch Knightley throw off his clothes in frustration near the beginning of the movie. (Flynn recorded a new song for the film.)Įven as de Wilde sticks to the strict codes of the period, her interpretation is not sexless. Knightley - the tale's foil-slash-love interest - is Johnny Flynn, a folk musician and actor familiar to Netflix viewers as the lead of the rom-com Lovesick, formerly known as Scrotal Recall. De Wilde, who has photographed campaigns for Rodarte, balks at the faded yellow tones of some other adaptations' costumes: "They weren't antique then." Anya Taylor-Joy, of The Witch fame, is de Wilde's "handsome, clever, and rich" heroine, the vain Miss Woodhouse who adores getting involved in other people's affairs, but refuses to deal with her own feelings. (Leave that to Clueless.) This new version is a faithful interpretation of Austen's 1815 novel that's nevertheless very funny, meticulously styled in hues that give it a marzipan-like aesthetic. "Beck has always been a fan of my crafting," she says.ĭe Wilde's Emma - styled Emma., period included - is not a radical reinvention of its source material. She describes the elaborate robot invitations she made for Beck's Christmas party that arrived in envelopes covered in vintage stamps. She whips out her business card: A tiny leather bound notebook lined with Georgian wallpaper, which served as inspiration for Emma. She's obsessed with paper. besides Die Hard." She earned her moniker while she was in a band and would bring cheese and crackers to practice, and one of her bandmates declared she was "bringing the comfort into rock." As we sit and talk in a midtown hotel restaurant, de Wilde keeps unveiling more evidence of her Stewart-esque qualities. ![]() A Room with a View is my favorite room of all time. So how did she end up in Regency England? "Everyone in rock and roll calls me the 'rock and roll Martha Stewart,'" she says. ![]() She's best known for her photographs of indie icons like Jenny Lewis and Elliott Smith, and perhaps her greatest claim to fame is shooting the album art for Smith's Figure 8 featuring a Los Angeles mural that became a landmark following the musician's untimely death. You may not know it from her debut feature, but de Wilde has a reputation in the music world. "I think people have this idea that rock and roll is only this certain thing, but we're all just pretending too." When photographer Autumn de Wilde's good friend Beck found out that she was going to be directing a new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, he thought it was "perfect." "He was like, 'this is so you,'" de Wilde recalls. ![]()
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