00:00Why did art show me how to use a gun?
00:02I just thought you should be prepared for what comes next.
00:05What comes next?
00:09This movie is sort of the reverse take on a classic 70s gangster movie,
00:13but from the perspective of the criminal's wife.
00:16What drew you to this project?
00:18Well, that was a big piece of it, that, you know,
00:21we women also really love these traditional genres,
00:25crime thrillers, action movies, superhero movies,
00:28and so rarely get the opportunity to see ourselves at the center of them.
00:32So this was an opportunity to sort of implode this genre
00:36and explore it with a totally different lens.
00:38And that was very exciting.
00:42Something happened tonight.
00:43You'll work out with Cal where you're going to go.
00:45Who the hell is Cal? Where is Eddie?
00:49This movie has its fair share of quiet moments in the beginning,
00:53but it definitely builds up and gets very intense.
00:56What do you think will surprise people the most about this movie?
00:59For me, I watched the movie with my family and I remember them thinking so many,
01:06that the movie was so many things because I hadn't told them a lot about it.
01:09So they thought it was a scary movie.
01:11They thought it was a thriller.
01:12They thought it was a psychological drama.
01:14Then they thought it was a mystery.
01:15And it was like watching them each time be surprised by the next step in Gene's journey
01:20was really exciting for me.
01:22It takes its time and it lays out how long it would maybe take a normal person
01:27to figure out what's going on in her life,
01:29especially if she's been living in the dark for that long.
01:31And that's what we actually see Gene going through.
01:33And the audience is going through that with them.
01:35And I think what's actually surprising is how satisfying that is.
01:40Hey, I'm not going to be home tonight.
01:42You'll be all right.
01:43Rachel, in the film, we don't see much of Gene and Eddie together.
01:53So we don't really get to see what their relationship is like.
01:56And I couldn't help but wonder, why did Gene stay with Eddie despite him being a criminal?
02:01So why do you think Gene stayed with Eddie?
02:03That's a great question.
02:04And one that Julia and I spent quite a bit of time talking about.
02:07I think before they realized they couldn't have children, their life was great.
02:13It was exciting.
02:14You know, we kind of imagined that maybe they met at a party and Eddie swept Gene off of her feet
02:21and they had fun together.
02:24And then they find out that they can't have children.
02:27And that dream that I think Gene in particular carried is shattered.
02:32And it's extremely traumatic.
02:34And I think that's the beginning of a breaking point for them.
02:38But I do think that there was a lot of love and life in their relationship prior to meeting
02:43them in the film.
02:44When you watch all of those 70s crime dramas that have the male protagonist, there is always
02:50a wife and a girlfriend.
02:51And you do often find yourself being like, why is she staying with him?
02:54And I think the answer is that love makes us do crazy things and sometimes makes us put
03:00our blinders up to what the person we love is really up to and maybe what they're even
03:03really like.
03:04In so many of those films, there is that moment where that relationship ends.
03:08And, you know, all you've seen of the woman in those other movies is that relationship.
03:14You haven't seen their own interior life, their own story.
03:16And so that was why it was so important to us to focus on that in this film.
03:20Is anybody looking?
03:22Everyone's looking.
03:23And they're looking for you too.
03:26You're not to talk to anyone.
03:28I've never been on my own.
03:29Rachel, why do you think people will enjoy this movie?
03:33I think it has a little bit of everything.
03:36It has this, you know, this very deep emotional well, and there's a lot of heart at the center
03:42of it.
03:42And then for folks who do love this 70s crime thriller, there's a lot of action.
03:47There are car chases.
03:48There's some singing unexpectedly.
03:51You know, there's guns and shooting and there's a vulnerable underbelly to the film as well.
03:58There's something in it for everyone.
04:00I think there's lots of things to enjoy about this movie.
04:02One, it's thrilling.
04:03You know, it's exciting.
04:05It's a film that's really on one level.
04:08It's really exciting because we're all drawn to crime and things like that.
04:15But, you know, kind of Trojan horses in these quite meaningful kind of themes, you know?
04:23Yeah.
04:24Yeah.
04:24I think it's quite a beautiful film.
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