A Gorgeous Man of Basketry: Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer on “Wicker”

RogerEbert.com·Oct 29, 2026 · 8:03 AM CT

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"Wicker" is a bawdy fairy tale about a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who asks the local basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) to make her a wicker husband (Alexander Skarsgård). He makes her very happy but upends her village's social hierarchy.

In a RogerEbert.com interview, Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer, the couple who wrote and directed the film, talk about getting the wicker's squeaky crunch just right, the multicultural crew that made the setting feel universal, and what they did instead of rehearsal to build the romance's chemistry.

Wilson says sound designer Andy Neil, a fellow Australian she has worked with for more than 20 years, came on early, around the first cut. He did "The Brutalist" right before "Wicker."

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