Director Emerald Fennell, Actor Carey Mulligan On 'Promising Young Woman'
NPRDirector Emerald Fennell, Actor Carey Mulligan On 'Promising Young Woman' ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the new movie "Promising Young Woman," Cassie has a strange hobby. SHAPIRO: This movie could have been a dark comedy or a scary revenge thriller or even like there's a rom-com aspect to it. She sent me the script and then, like, followed it up a couple of hours later with a Spotify playlist with Britney Spears "Toxic," the original song and an instrumental version of it, and Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind" and a mood board of all the kind of visuals of the kind of candyfloss look and the sort of fluffy jumpers and. SHAPIRO: Emerald Fennell is the writer, director and producer, and Carey Mulligan is the star of the new movie "Promising Young Woman."