I can't wait until the next time, to see all that I learned this time. Early last year, Driver and her sister, Kate Driver, approached Field about the possibility of directing Beautiful. At that stage, the project was more a parody of the beauty-pageant world and less a melodrama. For me, it's about a person that attaches themselves to something to survive their childhood, and then when you move on into adulthood, really the hardest thing, I think, is to quit defining yourself by the injuries of your childhood. That's a very difficult thing to do.
Most people never do it . . .
Field sees an underlying theme in the picture, too, one that she strongly related to and wanted to explore. There's a very precise little box that women have to fit into that's created by society, or commerce, or the media, that tells women what they have to be to be acceptable. And women try and try to cram themselves into this little box, even if they don't want to be in the damned box, but because it's there. I didn't want to spoof that world, because it already is a spoof. Plus, it's been done, and I wasn't a fan of those films.