Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale also do a lot of dancing, apparently, in the creature-feature romance hitting theaters March 6.<\/b>
\nWhen news about Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s bold, punk rock-infused Bride of Frankenstein riff started filtering out, an early narrative had it being called a musical. Some of that might be down to The Bride! co-star Peter Sarsgaard, who\u2019s also Gyllenhaal\u2019s husband, giving an interview where he described the film\u2019s \u201cbig dance numbers,\u201d and people naturally connected the dots.
But to hear Gyllenhaal tell it, The Bride! is not, in fact, something that should be classified within the musical genre, despite the talk of dancing and the fact that its main stars (Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale) are known to be actors who can also sing very well. This isn\u2019t Wicked or Chicago, in other words.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the writer-director set the record straight: \u201cCan we just put to bed the thing about it being a musical? It is not a musical at all. That\u2019s a different form. I don\u2019t know why that keeps coming up.\u201d
However, that\u2019s not to say Sarsgaard is a liar. Those big dance numbers? They are definitely there. Bale\u2019s character, \u201cFrank,\u201d happens to be a big moviegoer, and his favorite star is a song-and-dance man played by Jake Gyllenhaal, the writer-director\u2019s brother.
\u201cHe\u2019s such an incredible singer, and I love hearing him sing,\u201d Maggie Gyllenhaal said of her multi-talented sibling. \u201cIf you sit through all the credits, at the very end is one of his beautiful songs he sings. That was really a live, exciting connection, working with him on set.\u201d
But the \u201cmusical\u201d elements aren\u2019t just contained within The Bride!\u2018s in-universe cinema screens. Bale and Buckley also cut a rug on-screen, including \u201ca ginormous tap dance sequence,\u201d as Buckley tells EW, that you can glimpse in the film\u2019s trailer.
So to recap: The Bride! is not a musical in the traditional sense, but it definitely has some of that flavor in there. We\u2019re intrigued with every new detail we learn about what looks to be a very unconventional monster romance, hitting theaters March 6.<\/p>\n