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‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Director Zelda Williams on Making Her First Feature and What Happened When a Prosthetic Penis Went Missing
First-time director Zelda Williams talks making 'Lisa Frankenstein' and what happened when a prosthetic penis went missing on set.
Written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody, “Lisa Frankenstein” stars Kathryn Newton as a high school outsider who falls for a centuries-old non-verbal corpse (Cole Sprouse) that has come back to life. “When we initially shot the movie it was R-rated, so you saw that prosthetic fly into the trash can,” she tells me on this week’s episode of the “ Just for Variety ” podcast, adding, “I hope it winds up on some DVD extra at some point. It wasn’t just these critically acclaimed films… The one thing I will say is there is a certain amount of chatter that I’ve heard where they’re like, “We thought she’d be making a ‘Dead Poets’ thing.” I’m like, “Why on earth would give you that impression?” Other than the idea that you have now curated a version of him in your head that only existed as the movies you like not the other ones he made?
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