It’s a little bit problematic!” Her story, set in the “absolutely despotic” city of Belleville, explores the friendship between rebellious Cinderella (Carrie Hope Fletcher) and her friend Sebastian (Ivano Turco), who suddenly inherits a title and becomes heir to the throne. “You can’t have Cinderella without the shoe,” she says, “but it’s a man going around essentially deciding his bride on a woman’s shoe size. She decided to confront the modern pressures put on young women, while keeping “the deliciousness, fun and romance” of the fairytale and its traditional trimmings. It’s a little bit problematic! Emerald Fennell It’s a man going around essentially deciding his bride on a woman’s shoe size. The problem she had with Cinderella, Fennell says, is that “the girl has to change herself in order to be lovable”. Fennell’s eyes widen: “But that sounds … sensational!”
One featured a Cinderella working in a wardrobe department in Hollywood who left her footprints in wet cement at Grauman’s Chinese theatre. He grimaces at the synopses he had previously been offered. A few years back, when she was working on Killing Eve (she was the second season showrunner), he came for lunch and explained that he was looking for a new angle on the fairytale. “This is my first rodeo.”įennell has known him for ever: Lloyd Webber is a friend of her parents. “Andrew’s done this a billion times,” she says. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The GuardianĪ new musical by Lloyd Webber is an event in itself but Cinderella comes with an original story and book by Promising Young Woman’s Oscar-winning Emerald Fennell, “horrendously pregnant” and beaming as the due date arrives for her second baby and her first musical. Laura Baldwin (Adele), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Cinderella) and Georgina Castle (Marie) in Cinderella.
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