Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.comEmerald Fennell’s pitch meetings for “Promising Young Woman” were telling, to say the least.Explaining her 2017 process to fellow director Olivia Wilde (of “Booksmart” fame), Fennell recalled the stunned faces of male studio executives after she detailed the brutal, pre-title sequence of her film.“One guy said, ‘Oh, I got it. So she’s a psycho,'” Fennell exclaimed.