Frances O'Connor and Emily Mackey on the set of 'Emily'.

Frances O’Connor on her ode to young women and misfits, ‘Emily’

From Love and Other Catastrophes to A.I andThe Missing, Frances O’Connor has graced screens now for 30 years. For a long time, she insists she was content with “just being an actor”. However, at a certain point it wasn’t quite enough; she had more to say.

Writing and directing felt like a natural next step. O’Connor makes her debut behind the camera with Emily, a project she has worked on for 10 years and that forms an imagined take on the coming-of-age of Wuth...