'This was a very unusual theatrical commitment from all of us. It was like a Broadway run,' Sheila McCarthy says of the three-month film shoot.
As “Women Talking” begins, it is discovered that a group of men in an isolated religious colony have drugged and raped the women and girls in the community. The rapists have been arrested; the rest of the men have taken the long journey into town to bail them out, expecting — nay, demanding — that the women forgive them and continue with life as it was. Collectively, the women agree that is not an option.
The film, which opened Christmas week, mercifully never shows a rape scene; the attacks are hinted at as the survivors awaken to blood and pain. “And how powerful it is not to see those scenes, just to see the aftermath,” McCarthy says via Zoom from her home in Toronto. “It’s the conversation that matters, not the actual graphic part. The movie begins in the process of healing, and that’s what it should be.
In creating her character, Agata, Ivey says, “I have to give all credit to Sarah Polley — from scene to scene, take to take, moment to moment, her general note to me was: ‘You can just simply do it; you can just simply say it. Make it simpler.’ These women are complex, but they’re not complicated.” She also turned to the memory of her grandmother, a woman who approached life with great enthusiasm.
She and McCarthy bonded immediately, “and not just because of our ages, but we’re both from the theater first,” Ivey says. “One day we discovered we had at least 50 people in common.” Adds McCarthy, “I’m so sad she lives so far away from me, because I would be knocking on her door and seeing her every single day of my life if I could. She’s a funny, wonderful, wry person.”
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