How to Build a Pop Star With 'Mother Mary' Director David Lowery

The alchemy of a pop icon is a tricky thing. She (for it is only women held to this standard, or otherwise worth discussing) must, of course, be larger than life. Her iconography must be singular, a natural extension of her persona. She must also be vulnerable, lest she turn off the thousands of ticket-buyers required to sustain the whole ordeal. She must exist at the nexus of fashion, musicality,