Matriarch Elspeth (Rosamund Pike) raises a glass to eccentric aristocrats
NOVEMBER 2023 | EDITED BY BETH WEBB
WHEN EMERALD FENNELL, looking for a name for the country residence at the heart of her follow-up to Oscar-winner Promising Young Woman, read about Saltburn-by-the-Sea, she knew she’d hit the jackpot
“I just saw the word and thought, ‘Oh, that’s what it is,’” she remembers. “There’s something very sensual about the idea of salt burn. It makes you think of sex and the pleasure-pain sting of something.”