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Their options: remain silent, fight back, or leave and venture to forge a new future elsewhere.

It’s heavy subject matter.

WOMEN TALKING

The cast of ‘Women Talking,’ including Jessie Buckley (left center), Claire Foy (top center), and Rooney Mara (right center).Michael Gibson/United Artists Releasing

“Overall, I think the vibe was very positive,” Foy explains.

“The main theme of the whole thing was very joyful.

It was very collective, like we were a community.

We were in a barn in a studio.

I’d never done anything really green-screeny like that before.”

“Sometimes you work with people with no sense of humor,” Foy adds.

“We were very lucky that people did.

It would be a very different environment if you didn’t.”

“But you had to sit there and listen to it!”

Foy adds with a laugh.

“You had to stay awake.

I don’t know how you did all that, actually, and didn’t ever flag.”

“[I was] watching amazing actors who I have admired for a long time.

It was so interesting, just watching people work their craft.

But also just on a human level, it was a very loving room.”

you could listen to the full interview with Foy and Whishaw in the podcast episode below.