Jessie Buckley Dove Into Deep Waters for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter

Jessie Buckley can still remember the speech first-time director Maggie Gyllenhaal gave before the cast and crew of The Lost Daughter, saying that a truly great film can only be made “when everybody’s heart is in it.” Buckley says she surrendered to that process, imbuing the character of Leda (played by Olivia Colman in present-day sequences) with every complexity present in Elena Ferrante’s best-selling novel. “She’s asking people to really step up to the plate and invest all they can and jump off the cliff with her, the way she did completely,” Buckley tells Vanity Fair’s Katey Rich of Gyllenhaal…. Read Full Article