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The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
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The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
Special Presentations | 2019 | Coky
The Morrigan was the Irish goddess of war. She was the main opponent of Cuchulainn and often connected with crows. The novel is semi-autobiographical and this is both a nod to Caitlin Moran's Irish ancestry and a pun on her name.
Beanie Feldstein spent a month living with Coky Giedroyc in Wolverhampton to help her get the accent right. Feldstein even had a job working in a local bookshop and was forbidden to use her native Californian accent.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this played in drive-in cinemas in the USA, but went straight to a digital release in its native UK.
Mel Giedroyc (Charlotte Bronte) is the real life sister of director, Coky Giedroyc.
Johanna's "God wall" - in which she has pictures of all her idols pinned to her wall - was inspired by Caitlin Moran's own wall which she had up in her bedroom when she was a teenager.
"[last lines] Johanna Morrigan: So, what do you do when you've built yourself, only to realize you've built yourself with the wrong things? You rip it up and start again. Build it up and tear it down. Endlessly, repetitively, unceasingly. Invent, invent, invent. What will eventually be you? One day, you'll marvel over what you did. Marvel over how you tried to keep the loud, drunken, laughing, cutting, panicking, unbearably present secret of yourself - when really you were just about as secret as the moon. And as luminous under all those clothes. And how, like all the best quests, you did it all for a girl. You."
"Johanna Morrigan: [nervous on her first flight] They say flying is the safest mode of transport, but surely that's walking?"
