There is so much known about her, and yet, at the very center of all that knowledge, is this character of utter mystery, and Sarah is very similar." But even though she took her role as Sarah very seriously, the Spierig Brothers say Helen also had a lot of fun on set, and repeatedly told them, "Darling, don't treat me like the queen." "Sarah is an incredible gift for an actress," Helen told Collider. "I think she really fell in love with the character and the real Sarah Winchester," says Michael. Which is one reason Helen Mirren wanted to do the movie. "After she died, people tried to interview a lot of the staff that worked there and nobody ever said a bad thing about her," adds Michael.Ģ. She was really a pioneer and an intelligent woman.we never thought of her as a crazy person." And though she was certainly eccentric, she seemed to be well liked by the people who worked for her.
She was one of the first people ever to have a shower, one of the first people to ever have a telephone in that area, she was a farmer, she invented an irrigation system. "I think she really wanted to be a builder and she was afforded that opportunity when she bought the house. "Sarah really was a woman ahead of her time," says Michael Spierig.
Sarah Winchester wasn't just a kook with an interest in ghosts. Here, the Spierig Brothers, directors and co-writers of Winchester, share some secrets from the making of the movie, in theaters now.ġ.
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The Dame stars as Sarah Winchester in the new movie Winchester, about the real-life heiress to a rifle fortune who built a bizarrely giant house, either to contain the ghosts who were following her around or because she was just genuinely interested in architecture. There's nothing like a good haunted house tale, unless it's a haunted house tale starring Helen Mirren - that's something in a class by itself.
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