Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in The Wonder
(Picture: CHRISTOPHER BARR/NETFLIX)Before making The Wonder, director Sebastián Lelio had never made a period drama before. Nor was he familiar with the Irish history that permeates every scene of the film.
But he did have an in: the main character, Lib. “Lib was a great vehicle for me to access this unknown, very closed off world, where it’s their own particular set of rules, and they worship a particular God. It’s almost like going to another planet,” he says.
