Jessica Chastain’s new horror film Other Mommy hits theatres this Friday — and the title is already sparking debate. Not because of the movie’s plot, but because of a single word: why ‘Mommy’ instead of ‘Mother’? The Oscar-winner has now explained it, and it’s rooted in childhood language, not poetic symmetry.
The film follows eight-year-old Bela (played by newcomer Lila Karp), who begins to suspect that the woman living in her house, her mother. Isn’t quite real. Jessica Chastain plays both the actual mother and the doppelgänger entity she calls ‘Other Mommy’. The twist?
The girl doesn’t refer to her parent as ‘mother’. She says ‘Mommy’. In an interview with AP Entertainment, Chastain revealed the origin of the title came from a real-life moment: a man’s brother once walked into his niece’s room to say goodnight. As he turned to leave, the child said, “Goodnight, Other Mommy.” He froze.
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