“«If a man was the daughter’s unaware darling of the mother then retains that feeling as a conqueror for lifethat trust in success that does not rarely drag success with it ». Thus, theorizing on the lives of others (in this case on that of Goethe), Sigmund Freud theorized on himself. And on his mother.
Inexhaustible source of narratives and anxieties, of fruitful and very cups, The mother is the character with whom every actress sooner or later has to measure himself. Because you can’t be daughters forever, because we all have one, because if there is a challenge with which it is worth measuring it is certainly that. Robin Wright, in a series that interprets and directs And that on the platform where it has been planned for a few weeks it is going great, she is the mother.
However, the series is titled The Girlfriend – The girlfriend. And this clarifies immediately that they will be sparks. The girlfriend It opens with a gunshot off the pistol. It will only be discovered at the sixth episode who remained standing in That battlefield where the maternal instinct left the field to paranoia. In the middle there will be many sides in the trail, an infinite series of lies, pomp at the limits of the bearable (a Andalusian villa with 16 bedrooms) and an attempt at strangulation.
Robin Wright, the mother, and Graduated Davidson, the son.
The literature he puts daughter -in -law and mother -in -law against the other armiesto divide the remains of the “uncontested darling” (Laurie Davidson who was William Shakespeare in Will ), above all concerns the Mediterranean world. The rivalry between the two mythical figures produced scripted, tammurate, melodramas. But with The girlfriend We are in England, the interiors are at least as icy as the exteriors, the feelings generally detained and the character that Robin plays, Laura, is a gallery owner, with an open wedding yet in middle -aged crisis. The source is The bestseller of the same name by Michelle Frances (in Italy it publishes Nord publisher) who, before the editorial success, worked on the BBC, and the compacler enters the history by fighting furiously underwater with the parent. Okay, it wasn’t really, in fact we see them diverted shortly after in the sauna (they owned, like the swimming pool and like the villa that contains both). And we ask ourselves to what extent we can go with the smankers and buffets to not admit that Resto the incest is the best recipe to place themselves in the first place in the ranking of the most viewed of the week.
The discovery of the social classes
Robin Wright, for three years now permanently at work in London (the Tax-Credit for productions is more inviting, we learn), in the zoom frame is between a tent and an abat-jour, to reiterate that from the characters you never really get out. «The system of social classes, in England, is very clear. And it is palpable. He heard him in the air, “Dallas’s native admits with a smile. «In London, where we shot, the difference is very clear and much depends on which school you attended. If you did not graduate in that school, you do not belong to that class, point. In America it is not so. Therefore I wanted the question to become an integral part of the plot, because Europe, and even more England, is the place of the world where this is dramatically true. Cherry (the girlfriend, played by Olivia Cooke, Working Class, by Oldham, Manchester, daughter of a single mother, also in life, editor’s note ), if we think about it, had no choice. He grew up in a workers’ family and what he wants is only a better life. Is it criminal? If he falls in love with a guy who can offer a better life he takes two pigeons with a bean … ».
Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke.
Robin Wright does not specify if for three years he has made England his home because Trump’s America is now a not very fruitful place for artists. The reasons actually seem more ecological-existential than political: “I love the English campaign, I’ve always loved it.” Moreover, Tim Burton claimed to worship the opportunities that the British weather offered to an original like him. «It’s nice to leave the chaos of the city where I worked for so long and share space with birds and deer, feel the wind and appreciate silence»Concludes Robin who, the only American among many British, On the set the poetic license was granted to call “Kids”, children, his actors: «Are the children already on the set? I asked. And they were really enthusiastic about it ».
Of “children” Robin, in life, has two: Dylan, 34 years old, which directed by his father Sean Penn in 2021 in A life on the run to I woman He declared: “Dad and I really lived a cathartic moment in this film.” And then there is Hopper, 32, so baptized in homage to the family friend Dennis Hopper. The male son: “They are always our children» explains Robin, advising once again with his character, of whom he admits that “he is afraid to let his child go, his precious child, even if he is thirty years old, but that she keeps tight as if he had still six”.
Robin Wright and Laure Davidson in his fiancée.
Ever had, from mother -in -law, an experience similar to that told in the book and in the series? We ask them. “There were significant people in my son’s life who made me say: “Ok, I give them a week”. Things like this, only maternal instinct. When you tell you: “This won’t last, so don’t worry.” Even when they have fifty or sixty years and I may not even be on this planet anymore, I will certainly continue to worry about them ». Rival women, as in the old days, like in Eva against Eva. Very little in line with the password of sisterhood, imperative when males, for one reason or another, have been expelled. “If there are two alpha females in a room, there will certainly be a conflict” The director is realistically concluded. “But in another world, Cherry and Laura would have been better friends because they are very similar. Same determination, same will ».