Emerald Fennell believes films are presupposed to make folks “uncomfortable”.

The 38-year-old writer-and -irector has gained reward for her thought-provoking new film ‘Saltburn’ and whereas she does not really feel the movie is provocative for the sake of it, she insisted it is essential to make audiences “shift in their seats”.

Speaking to Deadline’s Breaking Baz column, she mentioned: “If you’re aiming to make something that sounds true and even if it’s metaphorical and kind of Gothic, and there’s something that makes people shift in their seats, it’s because we’re feeling something that maybe we shouldn’t. That maybe we don’t want to interrogate.

“And so there’s no point in being provocative for the sake of it – but if you’re kind of prodding at something uncomfortable, that’s what movies are for.

“I stick my finger in.”

But ‘The Crown’ actress also wants her work to make people “excited”.

She added: “The thing is that we just always want to make things that are fun, that push buttons and that make people excited. And make people want to watch it again.

“You want to make something that everyone talks about afterwards.”

Emerald notably enjoys how completely different viewers interpret the story in their very own approach.

She continued: “And everyone has a slightly different impression of what happened. The dance you’re always doing as a filmmaker is around how much you let people fill in the gaps. And how much do you show? And it’s really ,really lovely to hear so many people feeling so many different ways about what they just saw, and that’s just thrilling.”

‘Saltburn’ stars Barry Keoghan as scholar Olivier Quick and Emerald cherished his perspective to work.

Hailing the actor as “exceptional”, she mentioned: “He has completely no worry or disgrace …he simply desires to get into it. And the factor that excites him as a lot because it excites me is is that feeling of: let’s do it. let’s do it. let’s get in.”