Featured on IndieWire’s Most Anticipated Movies of 2025, Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s upcoming sophomore directorial entry “The Bride!” is shaping as much as be one wild journey. With Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley main as Frankenstein’s monster and his eponymous Bride, the movie is a household affair with Gyllenhaal’s husband, Peter Sarsgaard, her brother Jake Gyllenhaal additionally featured, in addition to Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening, and Julianne Hough. Sarsgaard additionally introduced his “September 5” co-star, John Magaro onto the challenge. In a current interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Magaro mentioned attending to work on the movie, which he described as a mash-up of dance movies and flicks about bandits in love.
“It’s a wild film. It’s very totally different than ‘The Misplaced Daughter,’ Maggie’s earlier movie that she directed,” mentioned Magaro. “It’s like a mixture of a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film, ‘Younger Frankenstein,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ and ‘Badlands.’ It’s only a wild, enjoyable journey, and on the helm is Christian Bale and the wonderful Jessie Buckley. It’s one thing that folks haven’t seen earlier than, and I’m actually excited to get it in entrance of an viewers. It’s bonkers.”
Magaro has saved busy the final 12 months, with a number one function in awards contender “September 5” and a supporting half within the Showtime sequence “The Company” on high of his work in “The Bride!” He additionally has the movie “Omaha” premiering at Sundance this week and “Köln 75” debuting at Berlinale in March, to not point out a small half in Kelly Reichardt’s newest challenge, “The Mastermind.” The movie stars Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, and Invoice Camp and is described as “an audacious artwork heist amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam Battle.”
Magaro mentioned the manufacturing in a current interview with IndieWire’s Kate Erbland, saying, “It was such a homecoming simply being on set with these folks, largely the identical crew [from ‘First Cow’], all of them come again to work along with her. There’s one thing familial about that set. And there’s additionally only a brilliance at work. I imply, Kelly is good. I’m actually excited to see ‘The Mastermind.’ It’s going to be improbable. I’m already assured in that. As a result of she has a real appreciation for cinema on the expense of possibly having a preferred enchantment at instances, her appreciation for cinema is obvious within the execution. You may’t assist however be contaminated by that keenness.”
It could look like loads to deal with, however Magaro is counting his blessing with the ability to have so many alternatives to observe his craft. Particularly in right now’s trade, when work is changing into tougher and tougher to come back by.
“I really feel very lucky as a result of I’m listening to about so lots of my friends and colleagues who aren’t working as a result of contraction within the enterprise in spite of everything these occasions,” Magaro mentioned to THR. “I’m continually listening to about below-the-line grips and gaffers who can’t discover work. Now, we have now these fires in L.A., and L.A.’s movie trade has already been so ravaged. So I really feel very fortunate to maintain working, and that’s why I’m all the time excited to leap at alternatives. I understand how powerful this enterprise is, and I do know that it’s solely getting increasingly troublesome.”
“Septemeber 5” is presently in theaters from Paramount Footage.