How Did Anna Survive Without Food in The Wonder? Why Did She Fast?
Anna O'Donnell is not based on any particular girl. However, Emma Donoghue, the co-screenwriter of the film and the author of the eponymous source novel of the film, was inspired by the real-life phenomenon of fasting girls to conceive the protagonist of her novel. "The Wonder is an invented story, but what inspired it was the very real.
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In Netflix's new period drama The Wonder, an English nurse named Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) arrives in Ireland to attend to Anna O'Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), an 11-year-old girl who claims.
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The Wonder is a 2022 period psychological drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. Emma Donoghue, Lelio, and Alice Birch wrote the screenplay based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Donoghue. Set shortly after the Great Famine, it follows an English nurse sent to a rural Irish village to observe a young 'fasting girl', who is seemingly able to miraculously survive without eating.
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Tom Burke as Will Byrne, Florence Pugh as Lib Wright, Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell in The Wonder. Algar, who plays Kitty, explains her character is "part of the story, but she gets to.
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Florence Pugh as Lib Wright and Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell in The Wonder. AIDAN MONAGHAN/NETFLIX. In the Irish Midlands in 1862, an 11-year-old girl stops eating but remains.
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Florence Pugh as Lib Wright and Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell in The Wonder. Aidan Monaghan/Netflix. In a controversial opening scene, the camera pans over a warehouse interior to a film.
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The Wonder followed Anna O'Donnell, who had ostensibly gone four months without eating. Anna's older sister, Kitty, was a minor character who was often shown learning to read. The Narrator, by contrast, was an all-knowing, modern woman who expounded on the importance of storytelling. The film's use of the same actress, Niamh Algar, for both.
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After much anticipation, The Wonder arrived on Netflix this week. The film stars Florence Pugh, one of the buzziest actresses of the moment, as Lib Wright, a 19th-century English nurse who is sent to the Irish Midlands to observe Anna O'Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), a deeply religious 11-year-old girl who claims she hasn't eaten in four months and subsists solely on 'manna from heaven'.
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by Emma Donoghue. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story . . . Inspired by numerous European and North American cases of 'fasting girls' between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, The Wonder is a.
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(L to R) Kíla Lord Cassidy as Anna O'Donnell, Tom Burke as Will Byrne, Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in The Wonder. Explaining her choice to set the movie in 1850s Ireland, Donoghue described it.
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The whole reason Nurse Wright is summoned by a self-appointed committee to a village in Ireland is that many people want to believe a young girl called Anna O'Donnell has miraculously lived.
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"Anna O'Donnell (Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months, surviving miraculously on 'manna from heaven.' As Anna's health rapidly deteriorates, Lib is.
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Pugh plays Lib, a nurse from London invited to an Irish village to verify its claim that 11-year-old Anna O'Donnell hasn't eaten in four months. Skeptical of the villagers' belief that Anna is evidence of a heavenly miracle, she looks for a logical explanation as she grows more concerned for Anna's well-being.
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Anna O'Donnell, an 11-year-old girl in village Ireland, not long after the Great Famine, refuses to eat and says she's been kept alive by manna from heaven.
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Directed by Sebastián Lelio, Netflix's period film 'The Wonder' revolves around an English nurse named Elizabeth "Lib" Wright, who arrives in a rural village in Ireland to "watch" Anna O'Donnell, who has been surviving without food for four months. The elders of the village ask Lib to take care of Anna. Even though Anna is satisfied with her present condition, Lib sets out to.
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The one-paragraph version: Nurse Lib Wright travel to Ireland on a two-week assignment to observe Anna O'Donnell, an 11-year-old devoutly religious girl whose parents claim she can live without food. Lib eventually realizes (with the help of William Byrne, a journalist) that Anna was being secretly given food before and is now starving to death.