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The lead character, Leda, says that she is named for the woman in the W. B. Yeats poem "Leda and the Swan", which Yeats based on the Leda story of Greek mythology. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In February 2020, Olivia Colman , Jessie Buckley , Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard were cast in the film. [ 12 ]
Leda and the Swan, 16th-century copy after the lost painting by Michelangelo. Leda was the daughter of the Aetolian King Thestius hence she was also called Thestias. [2] Her mother was possibly Leucippe, [3] Deidameia, daughter of Perieres, [4] Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea, [5] or Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron. [6]
Leda (Olivia Colman) is an academic on holiday at a sm ‘The Lost Daughter’ Film Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Captures the Secret Life of Mothers Skip to main content
Leda and the Swan, Roman marble possibly reflecting a lost work by Timotheos from the 300s BCE. More than two dozen examples of this statue survive. restored ()The historian Procopius claims, in his Secret History, that the Roman Empress Theodora acted in a reproduction of this particular myth at some point in her youth in the early sixth century CE prior to her becoming the empress.
Thestius was the father of Iphiclus [8] by Leucippe [9] or Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea, who was the mother of his other children, Althaea, [10] Eurypylus, Evippus, Hypermnestra, Leda and Plexippus. [11] In other sources, the mother of Iphiclus, Althaea and Leda was named either Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron [12] or Deidameia, daughter of ...
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, seducing and impregnating her. Leda produced four offspring from two eggs: Castor and Clytemnestra from one egg, and Helen and Polydeuces (Pollux) from the
Diane Ladd (born Rose Diane Ladner; November 29, 1935) is an American actress.She has appeared in over 200 films and television shows. She received three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a British Academy Film Award.
Nina gets in touch with Leda, who invites her to her house. Leda tries to urge her to go back to studying, to leave her husband and do like her, but for Nina, Leda's behavior is clearly that of an unnatural mother. However, Leda agrees to leave her the keys to the apartment and also returns her toy. Nina reacts violently to the discovery that ...