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Jessie Buckley shares the incredible story of filming her scenes as Mary Shelley while eight months pregnant, describing how having 'two heartbeats' inside her was a 'wild, incredible experience' that connected her deeply to the themes of creation.
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00:00Oh, I loved being Mary Shelley. I mean, I still kind of sometimes talk to myself as Mary Shelley.
00:06Same.
00:08Actually, being completely honest, the stuff that you see of Mary Shelley, I was eight months pregnant
00:14when we shot that, which was such a wild, incredible experience because I was like a monster,
00:21you know, I had like two heartbeats inside me. I was on the precipice of creation myself.
00:27We were like talking about what do we dare to offer to this woman, to your daughters,
00:37to our women out there to love, you know, to life. And to be able to do that with like
00:44this kind of creature in my belly while being untethered was delicious.
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