EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal's new Netflix film "The Lost Daughter" follows a mother on a vacation as she begins to confront the troubles of her past.

On "The LA Times Envelope Roundtable" on Spectrum News 1, Gyllenhaal opens up to host Mark Olsen about working from a novel written by an anonymous author, and what it was like communicating with her.

"At the very beginning, I appealed to her for the rights to the book, and I said I wanted to direct it. And I gave her a sense of why I wanted to adapt it," said Gyllenhaal. "And she said, 'Yes, you can have the rights, but this contract is void unless you direct it,' which was, at the time, a really meaningful vote of confidence."

The roundtable also features directors Kenneth Branagh, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Sian Heder, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Adam McKay. Click the arrow above to see Gyllenhaal discuss her film.