Star Emily Watson and directors Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer discuss their movie about rape in a small Irish fishing town.
Holmer compared taking on this bleak subject matter to “a heavy coat to put on.” In describing the burden of heavy roles like hers in, and throughout her career since her Oscar-nominated film debut in Lars von Trier’s 1996 movie, Watson said troubled characters in fucked-up situations are her “bread and butter.” She said the process of playing such characters is akin to crying: “You have a physical feeling, and when it’s over you feel different.
“Your body records it,” she continued. “Acting is like that. Even if the emotions are not from real things, they’re still passing through you. So you have to do the things that you do in real life to let them go. It trauma therapy, you know?” And then, she said with a smile: “This all sounds like very pretentious nonsense.”Watson also described the uniqueness of the production helmed by two women and a “gender-balanced crew.
One potential pitfall Davis and Holmer sidestepped was portraying the assault at the heart of the story. From the start they knew no such scene would be filmed. Davis explained they didn’t wantto take on the feel of a procedural. “We didn’t want to provide evidence for the viewer to kind of like, try and make a decision, like did he or didn’t he,” she said.Holmer added, “For us, [Sarah’s] word is enough.
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