As Saltburn celebrates its first anniversary, we interview Sadie Soverall, the only female to have romantic scenes with both leading men It has been almost exactly a year ago since Saltburn blew a hole in TikTok – and our sartorial perspectives – to become the most talked-about film of 2023 . Alongside The White Lotus and The Triangle of Sadness, it came to define a new era of upper-class satire. Suddenly everyone was searching for popped Abercrombie & Fitch polos and Ugg boots as a new nostalgia was heralded for 2006, the year in which writer-director Emerald Fennell set the film.
She told Vogue of her decision for choosing that time period: “it’s not back in fashion yet but it’s not so old that it’s vintage.” If the film’s other pull was the hedonistic entanglements of Felix’s impossibly attractive crew at Oxford, then Sadie Soverall should be the name you remember: her character Annabel was the only one to be romantically involved with Jacob Elordi’s Felix and Barry Keoghan ’s Oliver. She was introduced as Felix’s girlfriend but turned up at Oliver’s place later for a dalliance sewn by revenge.
“It was pretty crazy. I deleted TikTok by that point and I stayed off social media,” Soverall tells City AM The Magazine. “It was just very cool to be a small part of this massive thing, very surreal.
” How was it trying to make out with two heart-throbs while overlooked by 50 production crew? “They both were really different. Barry’s this incred.
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