Director David Lowery grew up in a Protestant family that forbade him from listening to pop music. “To my parents, Madonna transgressed everything sacred,” he explains. As a child he even felt fear when he watched her, but that terror gradually turned into admiration. “I have always been fascinated by how she used the language and visual representations of faith for another purpose. I’ve come to appreciate it because I understand it: when pop stars use that Catholic imagery, it takes on a deeper, more compelling meaning for me.” From that fraught religious approach, Lowery wrote Mother Mary (which opened in U.S. theaters in April), in which Anne Hathaway plays the Virgin Mary of the title, a pop diva inspired by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift whose music was created collaboratively by Charli XCX, Jack Antonoff, and FKA Twigs (who even has a small role as a medium in the film).
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