Maggie Gyllenhaal

And, you know, movies that are often outside the studio system ask you to hold that feeling for a long time.

And I love that.

You know, where you have to engage your own mind, your own heart to decide who you think that is and whether you think they're a good guy or a bad guy.

I love that.

But for me to have built and been allowed to build at this big studio a movie that checked the boxes for them in terms of the IP, in terms of the action, the love story in so many ways, but also be able to tell it in an unusual outside-the-box way with real freedom.

And then have to come up against someone very smart, I'm talking about Pam Abdi, with a different point of view and a slightly different agenda.

We then together, two women, had to interact, compromise, get inside of each other's minds to ultimately create a movie together that I think both of us feel really proud of.

I feel sort of simultaneously like somebody who just had a baby and someone who is about to have a baby.

Yeah.

Like, I—you know, that super vulnerable time in between having had a baby but being ready to go out in the world.

I have delivered my baby, right?

I mean, I'm finished with the movie, and I—

have been coming back into myself, even like to the point of like, oh, now my jeans fit.

And at the same time, I know that the world hasn't really seen it.

So I'm kind of in both places at once.

But I want to say one other thing about this, which is that when I started this process, even though I've put a lot of movies out into the world at this point, I naively believed that if I was honest enough

and excellent enough that everybody would love it.

And that is just not ever going to be true.

And it's late in life to learn that or to be in the process of learning that.

But I guess I'm interested in how to embrace, tolerate,