LOS ANGELES, March 6 (UPI) -- Jessie Buckley stars in The Bride!, in theaters Friday, after her Oscar nominated turn in last year's Hamnet. Buckley filmed The Bride! first and said her Hamnet character came out of her work on this movie.
At a recent virtual press conference, Buckley, 36, explained how the different roles connected. The Bride (Buckley) was resurrected to join Frankenstein (Christian Bale), and Hamnet's Agnes was Shakespeare's wife grieving their child's death.
"The woman that you discover at the beginning of Hamnet is the woman that I birthed in myself in Bride," Buckley said. "I think in some ways when Agnes is able to let Will go, it's because she has a substantial love and I think the love that I experienced and explored in The Bride!."
Buckley described her Bride! character, Ida, as "a woman who has a language unto her own, is deeply embodied, is ready to love wildly and on their own terms, like really love."
Ida does die and come back to life. Her face is stained with the chemicals Dr. Euphornius used to resurrect her, a look that only subsided gradually after filming.
