d) Why did John's mother want money?
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British matriarch who offered round-the-clock support. In fact, Sheila is scripted as being so cruel to her only son that when Bryce Dallas Howard, who was cast to play the part, first read Lee Hall’s screenplay, the actress was taken aback.
“When I first read the script, I was kind of shocked,” Howard told Vanity Fair—surprised by Sheila’s coldness and the cutting comments she made to her sensitive young son, which shaped the musician’s emotions and anxieties into adulthood. “I questioned [the portrayal]. Like, Hmm, this feels like vilification, and I don’t know if this is accurate.” So the actress did her own investigative work about the woman she would be playing—seeking out people who knew Sheila and were not affiliated with the Dexter Fletcher–directed film. In the end, they corroborated the script’s depiction: “In honestly every single conversation, it was confirmed to me that, yeah—this was a very dysfunctional relationship, and she was a broken woman.”