'We all had something different to offer': Talking with the women from 'Women Talking.'
] Well, we have four or maybe even five generations— decades—of experience here. That's a huge part of it. I've been in ensemble films before. I've never been in ensemble films where it was mostly women, but I've always abhorred “women films” where they end up singing into a hairbrush or wooden spoon, because I don't do that with my friends. We actually talk about science and the economy and things of that nature.
That scene, I knew I couldn't do it a million times and I'd already said that to Sarah. We only did it like three times, I think. Knowing that it was okay, that after that I didn't have to be like, “Ahhh!” But I don't know—I genuinely don't really know what happened. Really. It was one of those things that, I just did it. I did it and trusted it and trusted that it would be all right and that it was all there.
Kate and Liv, you play the children in the hayloft, listening in and observing these women and their conversation. What did you take away from the experience?I felt like I learned by being there and they were all just so open to answering questions. I went up to Rooney after one day and I was like, “How do you even do that?” And she was just like, “I don't even know. I just kind of do it.” I was like, “That is a great approach.
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