Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to experience some Hysteria, directed by Tanya Wexler, a period rom-com concerning the invention of the sexual tool women everywhere love to love.
Gyllenhaal broke it down for The Guardian (via Film School Rejects):
“I play a firecracker whose father is a doctor who is in the business of curing hysterical women. He cures them basically by getting them off and that actually happened. I end up having a sort of unexpected love affair with this guy who works for him, and who by mistake invents the vibrator.”
Jonathan Pryce will play the father/doctor/accidental inventor. Hugh Dancy and Rupert Everett will co-star in the project. Hysteria is shooting for a 2011 release.
All of this begs the question: how will they sell such a genre-bender? And can Gyllenhaal carry an indie film past critical acclaim and towards financial recognition?
Are you interested in this? Do you like Gyllenhaal’s work?