Shes not just out-of-her-mind crazy…. Im not encouraging that we empathize with murderers.
I never think being super violent is necessarily the answer for anything.
I went to Savannah [to shoot] two days after Trump was elected.
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It wasnt something that was so persistently in the press right now.
Im basically a prisoner in my own household.
Its entertaining and its a tragic love story.
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Everyones into true crime, everyone wants to know how somebody could be capable of something so heinous….
Imagine all the different stories that have been told but completely partially.
Chloe told me she wanted to bring down the patriarchy with this film.
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Did you channel any rage against the patriarchy into your performance?
She comes from extreme poverty; shes totally displaced in America.
Shes completely and utterly alone.
When she meets Lizzie…. theres a spirit coaxed out of her because of their mutual recognition….
I never got to taste that [rage] because I was playing somebody who was entirely subdued.
Choice isnt even a word that probably exists in the realm of their vocabulary…. Id never justify violence, but were all animals.
Its going to bite back.
Its satisfying to see that turn…. Theoretically, its total justification.
Lizzie wasnt an evil, crazy monster; she was an abuse victim.
The infamous murder scene takes place in the nude.
How did you feel about that?I love that detail….
The fact that we see her carry out this murder fully in the nude, she becomes feral.
She becomes an animal.
Shes visually, strikingly female in that moment, and also strikingly strong…. We were never like, Okay, then your corset bursts open!
Of course it doesnt burst open!
That intimacy level, that sort of hushed, quiet, whispered exchange they have, [fits].
It was present and honest.
[But] seeing Chloe naked with an ax…is so representative of what this movie is about.
That gets under my skin; I hate seeing it presented that way.
[For them] the word gay doesnt factor.
Its an instinct that doesnt have a name.
Chloe and Bryce said they had spiritual encounters with a few ghostly presences before and during filming this movie.
Were you spared from that?No, I was never visited.
I, on the other hand, didnt have any specific experiences.
