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“Even if it’s in the same time, they’re opposite ends of the spectrum.
There’s some scripts and characters that you read, and you feel like they’re already in you.
Bella Ramsey in ‘Catherine Called Birdy.'.ALEX BAILEY/Prime Video
That was definitely the case with Birdy.”
“What I love about films that necessitate research is you feel like you’re going back to school.
Dunham purposefully wanted to upend expectations of a medieval marriage-minded father as a gross or brutish figure.
Andrew Scott and Bella Ramsey in ‘Catherine Called Birdy’.ALEX BAILEY/Prime Video
“In the book when you read him, he’s this brute,” she says.
“It felt like it would be really interesting to have like a more genteel version.
So, what would it look like for them to actually just be young, cool, attractive people?
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The text group that I had with Billie and Andrew was called rock & roll parents.”
Ramsey says she instantly connected to Birdy’s rebellious personality.
“She’s not much of a rule follower,” she explains.
“She’s bold and she doesn’t quite fit the mold.
She’s not particularly normal, especially not for her time.
That idiosyncratic approach to life was a major reason Dunham cast Ramsey as Birdy.
That’s Birdy’s goal too.
“So much of this film is about bodily autonomy.
You will see Birdy attempting to assert the fact that her body belongs to her.”
Back then, it was a little lawless and wild and now it’s literally written into law.
It is very sobering.
