00:00Hey, I'm Relisa Kreisinger, and I'm here on the red carpet for the new movie, Assassination Nation.
00:04This movie tackles everything.
00:06Toxic masculinity, privacy, teenage sexuality, and that's not all.
00:11Let's hear what the cast has to say.
00:12Women, the agency that we have over our sexuality is completely taken away from us,
00:17put into the hands of others.
00:18And I think that this movie is about an exploration of how that happens,
00:23why that happens, and the consequences of that happening.
00:26I feel like in general, there's a lot less empathy for women in the world,
00:29and young girls, teenagers especially, they're judged very hard, very harsh and crucially,
00:34and they're held up to way stricter standards.
00:35I feel like men have been getting away with things for years,
00:37and at this point, these girls have had enough.
00:40And I think they're basically saying, look, we respect you, respect us back.
00:44These girls aren't trying to get back at anybody.
00:46They are defending themselves from assailants.
00:49So I think it's important to understand the violence in this film as self-defense versus offense.
00:56I wouldn't say it's revenge. I think it's a reaction.
00:59It's in response to a lot of the kind of psychological violence we have to face all the time, you
01:04know?
01:05Privacy is, I think, an integral part of democracy, absolutely.
01:08I think it's dangerous for everyone right now.
01:10In the world of sharing and oversharing, there's kind of an element of pressure to be the most public
01:16and to be the realist, but that is never quite what it seems like.
01:20I don't think that what you would find in my phone is terribly different from anybody else's.
01:25And that's why when people have leaks and stuff, I don't really look and I don't really judge
01:29because I'm not going to find anything unfamiliar.
01:31I think the takeaway for, in this film in particular, it's a battle against toxic masculinity.
01:37I think the takeaway is also empathy.
01:38There's an amazing line on the title page, in quotations, you know, in order to change,
01:44we need to become aware of our own bull****.
01:46And I think that's what this movie is.
01:48It's like, you know, an opportunity for us to see it from the perspective of this generation right now.
01:53Playing Diamond, it's somebody that has these emotions in him that he can't really share
01:57with, like, his other football teammates and men like him.
02:01But then within, like, his arc, it's this thing of, like, being able to check yourself
02:05and knowing that you could have been seeing things in the wrong way
02:08and then really opening your mind up to admitting you're in the wrong.
02:12Masculinity is so fragile, and we need to kind of remove that
02:15and kind of walk into this with an open mind and just be ourselves.
02:17This will definitely illuminate some of the larger a-holes in personalities in society.
02:26Some of them get their comeuppance in a big, fat way.
02:29I felt so lucky to spend my days with these girls.
02:33It was genuinely a f***ing honor.
02:35It's such an intense script and such an intense story.
02:38It relies on people who really want to rise to the challenge.
02:41And these girls helped me elevate myself to that level as well.
02:45I mean, we all just showed up.
02:46I'm, like, a massive fan of ABRA.
02:48I'm a fan of HARI.
02:49Like, Odessa's the most incredible, like, actress I've really been around ever.
02:53So it's, like, you know, it's such a joyous gift.
