Listen to her curated “Bridezilla” Spotify playlist shared exclusively with EW.

Jessie Buckley shares her personal *The Bride! *playlist of songs that inspired her performance (exclusive)

Listen to her curated "Bridezilla" Spotify playlist shared exclusively with EW.

By Sydney Bucksbaum

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February 6, 2026 9:00 a.m. ET

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Jessie Buckley in 'The Bride!'. Credit:

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Here comes the Bride...zilla.

*The Bride! *star Jessie Buckley tells ** that music played a major role in Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold, new take on the classic Frankenstein story. And she's not just talking about the movie's musical scenes; she's also referring to her own "Bridezilla" playlist on Spotify.

Buckley says she used "loads" of music to develop her performance during filming, curating it into a playlist. And since she's pulling triple duty in the movie — playing Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley, murder victim Ida, and Ida's reanimated corpse who names herself the Bride — that meant she needed all the aural inspiration she could get.

"I needed it all," Buckley tells EW. "Music was a massive part of it."

Thankfully, writer-director Gyllenhaal and her costar Christian Bale (who plays her onscreen love interest "Frank") felt the same way about using music as inspiration for the punk-rock film.

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in 'The Bride!'.

Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros.

"Christian is a complete music nut," Buckley says. "He's got such incredible taste in music. And Maggie's a music nut too. Most days, we just send music to each other. We didn't really talk that much; we just would send each other different songs."

Gyllenhaal reveals that Bale helped develop the look of his monster character by honing in on punk-rock icon Sid Vicious.

"Christian very early on sent me a Sid Vicious video of him singing, 'My Way,'" the filmmaker tells EW. "And I was like, 'Yeah, okay, our Frankenstein *is* punk in that classic sort of 1981 London way. That's great.'"

Buckley adds that the three of them would send each other all different types of music in a group chat, ranging from the rock band Spiritualized to "really dirty, naughty songs from the 1920's."

Jessie Buckley with writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal on 'The Bride!' set.

Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros.

"There's this one song called 'Shave 'Em Dry,' which is absolutely hilarious," Buckley adds. "And there's this album called *Ladies and Gentlemen* by a band called Spiritualized, and there's a song on it with the first opening line, 'All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away.' That felt appropriate. Also, PJ Harvey, the Pogues, Sinead O'Connor, Sid Vicious, all these wild, incredible, punk-rock, 1920s tap music. Björk as well, *Vespertine*, 'Pagan Poetry.'"

When it comes to the dark romance that grows between the Bride and Frank, Buckley says that one song in particular kept coming up in conversations.

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"Maggie always references the Joni Mitchell song, 'A Case of You,'" Buckley remembers. "Where she sang, 'I could drink a case of you and still be on my feet.'"

It's been more than a year and a half since they finished filming *The Bride!*, but the trio's shared connection to music continues to this day. "We still send each other music," Buckley says. "Even though the film's locked, we have a group chat and we just ping songs to each other. I love it."

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Listen to Buckley's personal "Bridezilla" Spotify playlist, featuring all the songs she used as inspiration for her performance, shared exclusively with EW below:

*The Bride!* hits theaters March 6. Read more on the movie in EW's cover story here.**

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