Does it crush you? Does it make you double down? What happens to a person in the darkness, in the silence and the loneliness, and in the solitary-ness of their own room? What happens to you when you come to terms with some terrible thing you’ve done? Or when you realize the enormity of the system that you’ve been part of and have been supporting. What’s important is to find out, or try and understand, what happens to a person after the event. “We know that he was probably as responsible for Nina’s death as anyone else. We know that kind of person. On playing the character, Molina explains: However, Molina and Mulligan’s characters have a very different relationship in Promising Young Woman - Molina portrays a lawyer who had convinced a woman, Nina, not to press charges against the man who raped her and now feels remorse for his actions. We didn’t have to do any sort of protocol or prep. She knows that I’m a bit of a goofball on set, and I’m making jokes and trying to make the cameramen laugh. He explains, “I know that Carey likes to gather herself before a take, and she likes to kind of get into a quiet zone. That experience from a decade ago helped them fall into familiar territory behind the scenes. Molina first worked with Mulligan when he played her character’s father in Mulligan’s breakthrough film role, 2009’s An Education. Molina spoke with Variety about his role and working again with actress Carey Mulligan. What happens to you when you come to terms with some terrible thing you’ve done?” – Alfred MolinaĮmmy Award-nominated actor Alfred Molina has had plenty experience playing unscrupulous characters in film and television and on stage, but he might top all of his previous nefarious characters with his brief, but significant appearance in the Oscar-winning film Promising Young Woman. “What’s important is to find out, or try and understand, what happens to a person after the event….

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