Earlier this year, we got upwind that Billie Eilish—that reigning maestra of youthful melancholy—will prima successful a caller movie adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
Directed by the superb Sarah Polley, this task represents Eilish’s archetypal foray onto the large screen. Plathypuses (TM) are divided astir her casting choice, but 1 happening is certain: we’re gonna request to speech astir this for a while.
Photos person begun to leak disconnected the movie set, truthful immoderate affable speculation feels successful order. Here’s what we cognize (so far!) astir the marque caller Bell Jar.
Eilish is unrecognizable to fans.
Earlier this month, Vogue reported connected Eilish’s quality transformation. In acceptable photos, the mage known for rocking an androgyne chopped and neon hairsbreadth was seen “wearing a short-sleeved knit apical successful scarlet red; a full, A-line skirt successful a jaunty cheque print; and, connected the quality front, a tidy broadside portion and bold reddish lip.” Mad Women, anyone?
The mid-century glow-up comes attraction of Luis Sequeira, a costume decorator known for his enactment connected The Shape of Water.
An aged Canadian orphanage is playing the hospital.
Polley, who is Canadian, has seemingly pulled a classical determination and tapped Toronto to play New York.
Parts of Hamilton, including McMaster University and Ancaster’s Tamahaac Club, volition besides marque veiled appearances. The second was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients successful its heyday, which feels thematically close somehow.
According to this morning’s Hamilton Spectator, the accumulation is presently shooting cardinal scenes astatine a Catholic girls’ schoolhouse and ex-orphanage. Mount Mary Immaculate volition play the infamous Walton Hospital, wherever Esther Greenwood receives her archetypal doomed rounds of ECT.
This mounting is also auspiciously eerie. Until recently, Mount Mary was maintained by a Ukrainian Catholic Congregation, and “once contained an orphanage [italics mine], daycare centre and a precocious schoolhouse for girls.” The Diocese of Hamilton bought the tract successful 2019, but nuns proceed to unrecorded connected the premises. Alongside—this scholar presumes—ghosts.
The school, dissimilar Eilish, has besides been successful a movie before. A country from 2017’s It was filmed there.
Additional It-people are filling retired the cast.
Carey Mulligan is acceptable to play Mrs. Greenwood, Esther’s mother. Which should truly nonstop a shiver of property paralysis down each Millennial reader’s spine.
And Deadline reported past week that Ella Beatty—of Netflix’s forthcoming Lizzie Borden biopic, and the parentage you’d guess—is successful “final talks” to articulation the formed successful immoderate mysterious person capacity. (Betsy?!)
The different large rumor centers Connor Storrie, of Heated Rivalry. The precocious shorn hockey king/friend to Canada is besides purported to beryllium successful the jar.
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