Olivia Colman on her latest film, "Wicker," which follows a lonely fisherwoman who asks a master basket weaver to build her a husband out of wood, only to become the envy of the village that once shunned her.
“I think the script, when I read it, was one of the top three scripts I had ever read. I was excited to play the part, excited at how it all worked, and really amazed at what Weta did with the wicker suit. [Alexander Skarsgård’s] voice coming out of this breathtaking, mountainous, beautiful wicker man was great.”
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#Sundance2026: For Wicker, directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson skipped CGI and used a practical suit to turn #AlexanderSkarsgård into a straw man. Also starring #OliviaColman and #PeterDinklage, the film centers on a surreal romance between a woman and the straw husband woven for her.
“It would be weird to have a love story with just Olivia Coleman and a CG guy with tennis balls. No matter how good it looked, it wouldn’t be real. We knew it had to be real the whole time,” Fischer said.
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Standing ovation for ‘Wicker’ world premiere at #Sundance. Olivia Colman visibly moved. A funny, moving fairy tale about a village outcast who asks a basket maker to create a husband for her — Alexander Skarsgard.
His doting, caring sensibility drives the patriarchal town nuts.
WICKER is my first big standout of #Sundance2026! Hilariously absurd yet also heartfelt and humane. Olivia Colman gives one of her most subtle performances here, while Alexander Skarsgård is charming as hell. The make-up work is also top-notch. Such a delight!
WICKER is a quirky, romantic crowd-pleaser that explores envy, true devotion, and the limits of social convention with eccentric humor and genuine heart from the filmmaking duo of Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer. Olivia Colman once again proves, whether in comedy, drama, or something beautifully in between, that she remains one of the finest working actors today, while Alexander Skarsgård delivers a warm, quietly enigmatic, and transformative performance (so incredibly well-crafted by the makeup and costumes departments) that’s impossible not to fall for. Smart, sincere, and deeply charming, it’s a strange but charming story about looking beyond differences and breaking the mold to discover what true love really is.
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