Interview:
David Lowery,
writer/director,
"Mother Mary"
Does the dress make the pop star? Written and directed by David Lowery, the supernatural-tinged psychological drama Mother Mary focuses on the estranged relationship between Anne Hathaway’s titular pop diva and Michaela Coel’s fashion designer. Hathaway’s Mother Mary desperately seeks out Coel’s Sam Anselm to make her a dress 10 years after the former abruptly ended their professional relationship. Still hurt by how her longtime friend and collaborator treated her so shabbily, Sam agrees to make Mother Mary the dress she needs for an upcoming performance of a new song as long as it is on her terms. Suffering from intense emotional and physical distress, Mother Mary’s only conditions are that the dress is any color but red and that it must reflect the person she is as a whole. As they get to work, Mother Mary and Sam’s shared and fractured past suddenly manifests itself in a strange and mysterious way that reveals itself to be the root cause of the former’s current fragile state of mind and scarred body. Jack Antonoff, Charli XCX, and co-star FKA Twigs wrote the songs in Mother Mary that Anne Hathaway performs as the title character. Mother Mary opens April 24 in Austin theaters. Dallas-based filmmaker David Lowery previously directed The Green Knight, The Old Man & the Gun, A Ghost Story, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, St. Nick, and the Disney films Peter Pan & Wendy and Pete’s Dragon.
Aired: April 15, 2026 Web site: https://a24films.com/films/mother-mary |
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