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ASHLEY JUDD on playing a tough cop:
“It was such a positive experience, and I think Sarah Thorp (who wrote the screenplay), wrote a fantastic character. She came up with this plot where an inspector suspects herself, I’m doing things behind my own back. I blackout, I can’t account for my own whereabouts. And she created this kind of gender stereotype-breaking character to carry it off.”
SAMUEL L. JACKSON:
“I’ve admired Phil’s work for a long time, and after seeing him in action, I can understand why his films are of such quality. I think he took a great story and elevated it to a psychological thriller with an ending they’ll never see coming.”
ANDY GARCIA:
“My thing was to work with Phil. That’s why I did this movie. I knew Sam and Ashley were involved. I knew Sam as a friend, Ashley, I didn’t know but I was a fan of hers. But to me the director is the thing. I’d been a great admirer of Phil’s work, and I just wanted to have that experience with him. And I tried to be of service to him. I said, ‘How does my character function in this story?’ And that’s what we concentrated on, and then the movie came together.”
JUDD:
“I think the concept is amazing, the writing has great pizzazz and the story is absolutely captivating – just like Jessica herself. This is definitely not your classic ‘woman in danger’ movie. It has lots of twists, not to mention an incredibly well-rounded female lead who is ready to take on the sexual double standard and stand up to any man who challenges her. She’s just fabulous, and I love how her toughness doesn’t eclipse her vulnerability.”
JACKSON:
“I try to do things (in films) that make sense to me as the audience member watching it. So that if you’re sitting there watching it, you’ll say, ‘That’s logical.’ I always try and make sense. A lot of times I sit in the movies and go, ‘Oh, why are they doing that? Don’t do that.’ I want the audience to stay with me and believe what I do.”
JUDD:
“I’m not one to think that my work has an effect on my personal life, it’s my day job and I try to keep it as that, but I was real worn out at the end (of each day), and I’m starting to speculate that maybe what the character goes through emotionally had something to do with it. I was in this beautiful setting, in my favorite city in America (San Francisco), surrounded by family and friends, and I was so exhausted that I would go home and basically say, ‘I’ll call you when I wake up.’”
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