How Greta Gerwig Found Inspiration Revisiting Alcott’s

Greta Gerwig says she had a very completely different interpretation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” after revisiting the e-book as an grownup.

“I hadn’t read it since I was like 15. And then I read it when I was 30 and even though I knew almost every single line, it was like I had never read it before,” Gerwig stated at TheWrap Screening Series for the Oscar-nominated movie on Friday. “It was like completely modern and pressing and strange and relevant, and it was about exactly what my central interests are: authorship, ownership, women, money and how that all intersects.”

The coming-of-age movie follows Jo March as a author in New York in 1868 as she appears again at her childhood together with her three sisters: Meg, Amy and Beth. As it jumps between 1861 and 1868, she realizes how everybody has grown and skilled their very own model of womanhood.

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Star Florence Pugh was launched to her character, Amy, whereas studying “Little Women” together with her grandmother as a toddler. She remarked the best way her grandmother wrinkled her nostril at Amy’s antics as she learn them. Tapping into the infantile facet of Amy was liberating for Pugh, particularly coming proper off of manufacturing on “Midsommar.”

“If I think back to being a kid, I can’t think of a photo or video or memory where I’m not doing, or anyone isn’t doing a dirty, cheeky laugh,” Pugh stated. “I think I was just so happy to tap into that child again.”

From childhood to maturity, Gerwig imagined Jo as a author by the top of the novel and adopted her similar footsteps. After a more moderen learn, Gerwig realized Jo will not be a author by the top, however nonetheless permits the film to finish the best way she imagined all these years.

“And I think one of the things about the book that is odd, but I blocked out was Jo doesn’t become a writer in the book,” Gerwig stated. “She says in the book, she stopped up her inkstand and she becomes a mother and she marries a German man and she opens a school and I hadn’t internalized that as part of her story. I had internalized the part of her that was a writer.”‘

Amy Pascal, who produced the difference, added, “‘Little Women’ is the culmination of everyone’s experience with the book written by Louisa May Alcott, and the many adaptations that have come from it.”