Rachel has been interviewed by The Vulture for The Favourite. In it Rachel details that the Director Yorgos Lanthimos has a very unique directing style, she speaks on the film preperation she and her cast members did, the metoo movement and the timing of filimg Disobedience right before The Favourite. Speaking of which, can you talk me through the process of learning the choreography for your incredible dance scene with Joe Alwyn? It was choreographed by an Argentine choreographer called Constanza [Macras], who has an avant-garde dance company in Berlin. Early on, she cooked up the gestures, and Yorgos would watch some of the dance’s moves and say, “I like that, but not that, that, but not that.” We’d try it again; it was always a work in progress. Then we had to do it with the costumes on — the headdress, corset, the long train. And some of the moves became physically impossible, like, “I can’t do that with this dress on.” Yorgos said, “Okay, then, try something else.” So it was pretty scary. …

On Decemeber 6, Rachel was interview by the LA Times about The Favourite. Rachel was once again asked about the lesbian love intererst aspect of the film and her response was quite wonderful. Because of the love triangle, the movie is being taken up as a queer film and I’m wondering if you all thought of it that way as you were making it. How did you contextualize the relationship between the three women as you were making the movie? Well, we didn’t verbally contextualize anything, amongst each other. In my private imagination, which is really all you’ve got to act and tell a story, they were lifelong friends and lovers. It was in a time where my character was also married, and so had the queen been married and Abigail was married. So they are three married women. My character actually also had children, though that’s not in the film. So I guess the term would be bisexual, but I don’t know if that’s an anachronistic term. It didn’t seem to be set in …