'Promising Young Woman' Blu-ray featurette exclusive

Writer/director Emerald Fennell and stars Carey Mulligan, Alison Brie, and Laverne Cox discuss how the film explores the gray areas still surrounding society's approach to consent.

Video Transcript

EMERALD FENNELL: This is a movie about a woman who is dealing with terrible trauma. But she also happens to be yearning for something a bit more normal.

- We would need to take it slow.

- I can take it slow. I can barely move if you like.

CAREY MULLIGAN: The film needs that kind of humor at the center of it. That's got to be the thing that pulls her out of her solitary life is someone who just is funny.

LAVERNE COX: I think what is brilliant and beautiful about Ryan is that he is a good guy. And yet there's really problematic stuff that Ryan has to look at in himself.

- I don't-- I don't want to look at that, Cassy.

- Why not?

LAVERNE COX: If we can move past the binary of, like, some people are good people, and some people are bad people and move to the spectrum of just really great, amazing people who have done not so great things. And that's most of us.

CAREY MULLIGAN: It's not a male female issue. It's a societal issue. It has a lot to do with what has become acceptable in our society and trying to talk about those gray areas.

- I'm not the only one who didn't believe it.

ALISON BRIE: But I think that this is a movie that should always exist and could be told at any time. But especially right now, we're all just taking a closer look at consent and what it means. And this movie is really shaking that up.