‘Saltburn’ Writer-Director Emerald Fennell: It’s “A Vampire Movie” About “The Fetishization Of Beauty”

“This could easily have been set in Hollywood,” Emerald Fennell said of her new film Saltburn, during a post-screening Q&A at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The actual setting is, in fact, a long way from Hollywood. Fennell’s sophomore follow-up to her Oscar-nominated Promising Young Woman, Saltburn follows Oliver (Barry Keoghan), …