00:01Take a deep breath.
00:06Hold it.
00:09And lay back.
00:16What happens next?
00:21You're looking right in the eye.
00:27Okay, hello. Thank you so much for chatting with me.
00:30I love a thriller.
00:31I was immediately excited about this film.
00:33But also what struck me in the end was that it really was the women who saved the day.
00:38So I would love to talk about what drew you to the script and your respective roles.
00:45Would you like to?
00:47I'll let you go first.
00:49Okay.
00:50Well, I think what drew me to the script was I do love a thriller too.
00:54And it was quite a page turner.
00:55But I felt that the characters were all really what was rooted in really complex characters and people trying to find their way in life and through their challenges.
01:07And I did, of course, love that the women that there wasn't just one woman and she's not a superhero.
01:14It was both of us and we were very real women and Medina's characters pregnant.
01:19And, you know, what to have a character like that on film and being as strong as she is.
01:24And the way that it's written and the way that Taylor approached it wasn't with, I feel like it wasn't saying, oh, look at these strong women.
01:33It was just with this understanding, of course, women are that strong and of course, they're that capable.
01:38And, and I think that also makes it so everybody can watch this film and, and, and see women in this way.
01:48And more of it maybe in a way they might not have if it felt that it was intended to be in their face about feminism and what women can do.
01:58Everything Angelina just said, and then also because the story had these two female characters, you know, on their parallel tracks, we got to explore motherhood and their, you know, relationship to motherhood in different ways in the same movie.
02:24And like what that mothering instinct creates and, you know, the, the juxtaposition of the vulnerability of that kind of desire to care for another person puts you in, but the strength that that then can also draw out of you.
02:42And so it's like Angelina said, Taylor has, you know, poured his respect, just genuine respect for women into these characters, but, you know, wrapped up in an amazing thriller.
02:57Yes.
03:01And I actually was going to ask about that because I feel like we see the instincts, you know, beginning your character immediately.
03:07And then Angelina, you know, yours, I think resisting kind of that instinct way coming around.
03:12And I would love, you know, for both of you being mothers in real life and, you know, mothers to black children, I would love if you could speak about how your own instincts have been in the past year.
03:21You know, the trouble we've seen police brutality and things like that, of just protecting your own children in life.
03:26You know, it's the, the, the, the, the love you have, you know, for, for your own children is just like so immense.
03:47And then the, the flip side that comes along with that is, you know, any fear of loss or fear of harm coming to them.
03:57And I'll be honest, it can be quite staggering.
04:00Yeah.
04:01At times.
04:03And, you know, finding the balance between, you know, you know, the joy of parenting and, you know, having faith.
04:16In your, in your children's safety.
04:21And then balancing that with like the reality of the risks that they can and will and might face.
04:27Is it's, it's an ongoing, it's an ongoing battle.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Yeah.
04:35Angelina.
04:36It's just, I, you know, I think I'm, there's been so much to, to learn so much to absorb.
04:45I'm really, I'm trying to listen.
04:47I'm raising children and, and children are of different races.
04:52And I feel there is just ever since they were little so much I have to learn from them.
04:58Learning about their, their, their cultures, their races, and, and all that it is, but it is also.
05:07Yeah.
05:08It is so, the, the idea that someone would think that someone is not equal or less than or in any way deserves to be treated with the kind of cruelty that we've seen is so ignorant and so horrid.
05:29Beyond understanding.
05:30Beyond understanding.
05:31And when you think of somebody having those kinds of thoughts towards other people.
05:36Other people's children as certainly when it's your own, you also just, you just can't.
05:41And you don't want to be able to make sense of any of that.
05:45It makes no sense.
05:46It's just, it's just been a horror to, to see, to, to have so much even more.
05:52We knew, we know that there's so much happening, but to see it so exposed, to see it so, and to have our children see it.
05:57My children are old enough to be watching and listening and learning.
06:00And it's just trying to watch them absorb all of this and not become overwhelmed by it.
06:10It's a lot.
06:11It's a lot.
06:12I imagine.
06:13Yeah.
06:14Well, thank you both for your time.
06:16That's my time, but I appreciate you.
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