Alice Birch wants to portray childbirth in ‘death ringer’ in a ‘thrillingly cinematic’ way

popular tv author succession and ordinary people, Alice Birch wanted to find a beautiful way to portray childbirth on screen. The show creator did just that with her much-hyped Amazon series Dead Ringers.

“We don’t just want to talk about birth, we want to talk about childbirth, and the whole system of maternal health care,” show creator Alice Birch told rotten tomatoes About the Prime Video series.

“I didn’t really see labor or maternal health on screen. I was interested in finding a way to tell that in an exciting, cinematic, hopeful and beautiful way.”

death bell Already a hit in Cannes, the audience burst into applause after the screening.

Rachel Weisz stars in Amazon’s six-part series “Death Ring,” a high-concept remake of David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychosexual thriller.

Weisz stars as Elliott and Beverly Mantle, famed twin gynecologists looking to bring women’s health into the 21st century.

The show addresses their toxic interdependence, their struggles to achieve medical goals, and the politics of their Big Pharma investors, all while exploring topics that haven’t been portrayed on screen before.

The series is directed by a female team and produced entirely by a female writer’s studio. The show’s themes include bodily autonomy, consent and medical ethics from a female perspective.

Alice Birch was an English author who achieved success as both a playwright and screenwriter. She wrote plays such as Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again, which earned her the George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright.Birch also wrote the screenplay for the film Lady Macbeth and contributed to such films as succession and ordinary people.