Claire Foy is talking about TikTok or, more precisely, how she doesn't understand TikTok and needed the younger cast members on the set of her new film "Women Talking" to help her navigate the popular app, when co-star Jessie Buckley stands up and starts doing what she calls that "flossy thing," swinging her arms in her oversize sweater, doing the celebratory dance in the best possible way and laughing uncontrollably.
"Now," Foy tells me, "picture Rooney Mara doing that wearing a Mennonite costume and a pregnancy bump, and you'll have an idea of what we were like when we weren't on that hayloft set."
"Women Talking" premiered the first week of September at the Telluride Film Festival and has finally arrived in theaters after screening at several other film festivals throughout the last few months. Adapted from Miriam Toews' 2018 novel, the film, written and directed by Sarah Polley, focuses on a group of women in an isolated, fictional Mennonite sect who have been drugged and sexually assaulted. They gather in a hayloft to decide whether to stay and forgive the men — the only way, they're told, that they can enter the kingdom of heaven — or stand and fight the men. Or pack up and leave the only home they've ever known.
