‘The Dreadful’ Director on the ‘Forbidden Fruit’ of a Kit Harington-Sophie Turner Romance and Telling a Dark Ages Horror Story Focused on Women

Natasha Kermani’s film began with a dark vision she couldn’t shake.

“I couldn’t let go of this idea of two women living in a very desolate, barbaric landscape,” she says. “I felt like that was a relationship I didn’t see a lot, and one I wanted to explore. We see a lot of mothers and daughters, but we don’t see a lot of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, two women of two different generations who have been thrust into coexistence.”

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