Why Maggie Gyllenhaal needed Olivia Colman to be "sane" to play Leda in The Lost Daughter | BAFTA

Contains strong language
Maggie Gyllenhaal on adapting Elena Ferrante's acclaimed novel The Lost Daughter and working with cast members Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley. Gyllenhaal is joined by producer Talia Kleinhendler, editor Affonso Gonçalves and composer Dickon Hinchliffe.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:32 Maggie Gyllenhaal on contacting Elena Ferrante
01:39 What attracted her to The Lost Daughter
03:00 CLIP: The doll
03:46 Why Leda couldn't be mad
05:07 Finding the right actresses
07:02 Making the audience relate
08:23 CLIP: Staggering girl
09:14 Constructing the flow of the film
10:18 How the music became a character
11:23 Directing the crew as actors
12:50 CLIP: I don't remember
13:46 Becoming a director
14:44 Learning to be a director from the best and the worst
15:37 Onto the next challenge
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[@sheemakarp6424]

Best interview with this director about this film.Is this the whole interview? Please post in its entirety.
After viewing, I found the film immensely unsettling & i was not grateful to MG. But it was compelling & i gave thought much to it (unwillingly, I admit). Here i find how she describes her experience very helpful. I thank her for her effort & will watch it again (surely I can find the courage). I think we are ready for such films.

[@abigailv5347]

Maggie was born to direct

[@pjsmith4369]

Yes, having children is a challenge and we all need breaks at times.
But to leave your children for 3 years - if a father did that, it would be called abandonment.
It is still abandonment if a mother does it.
Having affairs as if one deserves them - where are the person’s morals?
I feel like I lost 2 hours of my life watching this movie. The movie was “ unbearable “. I have actually suffered from serious mental illnesses after having my children. Post Partum Psychosis and Post Partum Dépression, and could never have imagined leaving. I needed help, yes, but to abandon them for any reason?
My granddaughter was abandoned by her father when she was three years old. The impact has been devastating, and she had her grandfather take his place until today and she is now 20 years old. Her grandpa is Dad to her.
I just felt anger towards the character of Leda. We know and have lived abandonment. She seemed like an extraordinarily selfish person, like my son-in-law. Yes, he is still alive. No contact. She is still not important enough, I guess.
Terrible movie.