If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021) on Netflix
A young queen, Lila, returns to her castle and finds the king dead. Her reflection, Lilith, has become a separate presence, and the court debates her future.
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- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Queen Lila is young and pregnant. She returns to her castle and finds the king dead. In a mirror, her reflection appears as a separate entity named Lilith. Lilith unsettles the court members. The court discusses what to do with Lila. Lila takes on the king's duties and sits on her throne, but she soon abandons it and walks to the balcony, where she sees a strange fiery light. The kingdom mourns the king. Lila displays a bruise to the Matriarch and the Aristocrat, which shows the king physically assaulted her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021)
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- Because Halsey was five months pregnant while shooting the film in Prague, her working hours were restricted, so the crew filled shoot days with reaction shots while she was absent and used a body double for over-the-shoulder shots and stunts.
- Prague's late-winter cold forced director Colin Tilley to change how he shot the film: with Halsey unable to stay on set long, a sequence he normally blocked two hours for was shot in 15 minutes.
- With the Czech government banning gatherings of more than two people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the production had to win special permission to film inside 11th-century castles, including Křivoklát Castle, and on roads.
- Halsey's pregnancy was hidden on camera with practical effects, sewing different pregnancy stuffing into her costumes instead of only fixing her belly digitally in post-production.
- Two shows of the film at London's BFI IMAX played to full capacity, the first time the venue had been full since December 2019, and encore screenings were added in cities where shows sold out.
