![]() ![]() So these abbeys were both places of incredible freedom for women, and also prisons. Welsh princesses were captured and sent to abbeys to prevent them from having sons who would then rise up against the Crown. But a lot of women were sent there because they were unmarriageable or because they were political prisoners. A lot of women were there because they had a vocation and there was a real sense of destiny in faith. That too is, in some ways, a living death. LG: If you were a woman then who had no family, you were basically set adrift in a world, and your only option was to become a prostitute or hope that a nunnery would take you in. MK: Marie is sent to this abbey and she calls it “a living death,” which seems like the worst version of exile. To have her resist this role was important to me. And I love that about Marie as a character, especially as an abbess who’s the distillation of all feminine things in a holy woman. ![]() LG: There’s a long history of women, people who were born female, who are expected to perform feminine roles, and just resist them from the beginning. ![]()
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