Maggie Gyllenhaal

I just wonder if you had been a man making this movie, if you would have had the same response.

Just straight violence.

And I was asked to take some of it out, and I did.

So what you're seeing is even a little bit pulled back from what was originally in the movie.

Mm-hmm.

And one of the things I think that was important to me is that everybody who is killed, is hurt, we at least for a moment get to know them.

So there's the sort of stormtrooper version of killing people where they have white masks on and you don't know who they are.

And then there's the version where, which was very important to me in this movie, every single death has a consequence and a cost.

Every single one.

The other thing I really want to talk about, I want to talk about the sexual violence because that's another thing that I have been taken to task for.

And I do... Taken to task by whom?

Again, just by like reading the things in the test screenings.

I'm interested in this.

I really am.

I'm really curious, you know.

So I had a couple of women, because you know, you don't know who it is, of course, but you know it's a woman, you know what age they are, say...

I don't want to see a woman being violated.

And I think I also don't want to see that.

And yet that is a major reality in the culture that we're living in.

And so if we're going to see it, which in this movie we do need to see it, we need to see it in a way that is very hard to watch because it is very awful.