'There's no precedent for what a woman director wears to their premiere.'
They were excited to talk about fashion as well, more so to each other than to me. In fact, they barely seemed to notice I was in the room , so engrossed were they in each other's thoughts and ideas around personal style and getting dressed for set and appearances. Up for discussion: the hours women spend in glam that male directors can devote elsewhere; the feminine [director] urge to always wear suits to events; simultaneously having breasts and being a director, and more.
Read on for the 10-minute, increasingly unfiltered conversation, beginning with Gyllenhaal's painful account of suddenly losing her carefully curated set wardrobe before filming "The Lost Daughter." We [started shooting] 'The Lost Daughter' at the end of September 2020 — so full Covid, no vaccines. Before we left, we were living in a cabin in the woods, and I was ordering everything online. It was all organized.
I just really quickly bought all these clothes that I thought were sensible. And then I got to Greece and I was scouting, and I just did not feel like myself. I was like, 'This is not me.' I felt awkward and strange. I ended up going one day to a couple of shops on this island, buying a couple of things that felt a little more expressive and a little more like myself, and I felt a lot better. I still think you have to look and feel like yourself when you're getting dressed.
For [formal, public-facing] stuff, it's been a whole trip for me because I do think that doing hair and makeup on some level makes you feel good, but on another level is an extra hour, hour and a half, that Mike Mills and Pedro Almodóvar and Denis Villeneuve and Steven Spielberg just aren't doing...
I don't know. I think I might be done. I've been really struggling with it the whole time. I always want to feel like myself and I want to express myself with everything I can; it makes me feel better, but it's kind of a lot of work. On my first movie, even on my short films, I was really obsessed with an idea of a uniform: There's a Barbour jacket, there's a hat, and then at its simplest there's a very basic white T-shirt tucked into a pair of jeans or slacks.
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