How Editor Sofi Marshall Wove Together Black Bear’s Bawdy and Heartwarming Fable 'Wicker'

Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s Wicker follows an ostracized Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions and falls in love with a Wicker Husband (Alexander Skarsgård), drawing together practical effects and technical filmmaking. After learning its otherworldly, fantastical plot, Editor Sofi Marshall jumped at the chance to join the project and reunite with past creative collaborators, directors Huston Fischer and Wilson, to bring this project—and the Wicker Husband—to life.

Marshall built on Colman and Skarsgård’s authentic, powerful performances to bring the funny, heartwarming, and surprisingly vulnerable story to life. The post process was extremely collaborative. Often, she and the directors would each edit their own version of a scene, then come together to pick their favorite parts from each cut and shape the final version. Working across four time zones and three continents, the post team relied on Productions in Premiere to sync across the world and assemble the final edit.

Go inside the edit with Sofi Marshall to see how Wicker took shape.

How were you introduced to Wicker, and what drew you to edit it?

Sofi Marshall: Wicker is a love story at the perfect intersection of hilarious, bizarre, and charming—I knew I wanted to edit it just a few pages into the script! Of course, having worked with the directors, Alex [Huston Fischer] and Eleanor [Wilson], on their previous film Save Yourselves!, I knew that it would be a really fun and creatively fulfilling edit.

How did you set up the workflow for this film? What did you do differently?

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