Toronto regular Sebastián Lelio returned to the festival with his latest female-fronted drama The Wonder, a period piece starring woman-of-the moment Florence Pugh. Stopping by Deadline’s TIFF Stud…
The Wonder,
a period piece starring woman-of-the moment Florence Pugh. Stopping by Deadline’s TIFF Studio with screenwriter Emma Donoghue — author of the Oscar-nominated“It’s a story about an English nurse who is summoned by a group of notables from a small Irish town in 1862,” he said, “and she has to watch [and] observe a girl that, allegedly, has been surviving without food for a few months. So, the town needs to understand if this is a miracle or a hoax.
Donoghue’s novel was brought to him by producers Ed Guiney and Tessa Ross, and it appealed to him straight away. “I just loved the novel,” he said, “and I really loved the two central characters — a nurse and a girl — which is quite an unusual relationship in a film, I would say. It’s not a romance, it’s about two women. Also, I really, really, really connected with how the novel escalates at the end and spirals.
Asked if the story was in any way based on fact, Donoghue revealed that it was fictional but nevertheless had its roots in reality. “is based on many different cases of so-called ‘fasting girls’ from the 16th right through to the 20th century,” she said. “Every now and then it hits the headlines that some young woman or child is able to live without food. It’s a persistent cultural fantasy.
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