Sorry for the lies.
I'm sorry for the lies.
I'm sorry for everything that happened here.
I went to prison for half of my life.
So I think I've more than paid for it, okay?
You were sent to prison.
You have to take responsibility for that.
Hi, I'm Sandra Bullock.
And I'm Nora Fingscheidt.
And we're gonna take you through a scene
in The Unforgivable, shot by shot.
Oh my God, I said I did it.
Can you just tell me where John is?
- And I will leave. - John would tell you exactly
what I'm telling you right now, ok?
You lost your opportunity.
Lost it!
In the story,
so Ruth just heard from Katie's sister
that Katie's playing a piano rehearsal
and she knows that this is her only chance of seeing Katie,
but she also knows that she is legally not allowed
to come close to Katie.
So she doesn't want to mess it up this time,
and she tries to reach John Ingram.
She cannot.
So she goes there a second time,
entering the Ingram's space.
John looks at you
and he sees someone who deserves a second chance.
I don't see that.
I hear someone who will say anything to get what she wants.
You would do exactly the
- same thing for your kids. - Oh no, don't go there.
Exactly.
Don't even pretend this is about her.
I was protecting her.
Well, this was a scene
that we shot on the second day of coming back after COVID.
And I know, I mean,
there were reasons in the schedule
that we had to film in that way,
but it was super scary...
At least for me.
But I remember this day.
So hard. So hard to not
be closer to Viola
that I had to stay away,
that I wanted to,
I wanted to always move into her space and I couldn't,
which in turn,
I think reads well, that I...
It's like a caged animal.
Like I wanted to be up in her space,
but COVID was going 'get back, get back.'
But, the thing that I was so moved by was
that Viola had come out of the house a couple times
and then asked for the boys to come back.
So, the boys could be passing by her
so she could tell them to go inside.
So, that feeling of protecting your children
could ignite her performance.
And the difference of just those boys walking by her
and her coming out of that house,
she came out with a fire and venom
that only a mother could have.
You are not a victim.
- I said, "I did it." - Alright, that's bullshit.
I had to make
- a choice. - Face it,
you traumatized her.
- Do not even pretend this is about her. - I fucking said I did it!
She was only five years old!
With this scene, the whole movie stands or falls.
- Yeah, yeah. - Like there is not a single line
that we haven't questioned a hundred times.
And then we did a kind of a reading,
not a real rehearsal,
but more like an on-set reading the day before,
which is always great.
I love that to explore the space a little bit
and then we can all sleep over it.
But, then on the day we didn't rehearse it anymore
because I mean, at some point with those emotions,
you know, you don't have a lot of takes,
and you know,
this scene leads to the truth revealing for the first time,
probably after 20 years of what really happened.
Where are you going?
How many times do I gotta tell you?
You come in that door
and I swear to fucking God,
we are not leaving!
We are not leaving!
Get off my-
Get off my fucking porch.
Go ahead, try it.
Go ahead and try it, Corey.
Ruth!
I mean, I remember, you know, the day on set
that we started with Sandy's takes
and after the second take,
I remember that our sound supervisor
or sound man on set,
he came to me and he said,
"Nora, I have to tell you something.
I'm doing this job since 25 years.
And I never cried on set until today."
But, that was the moment that I felt like,
"Wow," you know, we just, I mean,
Sandy just created something so truthful and so powerful.
And so emotional here.
It's a scene that means a lot to me.
You are not a victim!
- I said I did it. - Alright, that's bullshit!
Here's this white woman who gets out after prison,
after 20 years having caused so much pain.
And if it had been the reverse,
Viola having done this,
do we honestly think
that society would allow her out of prison after 20 years?
We know what that answer is.
It's not an easy subject to talk about,
but we have to talk about it.
So her saying, "You are not a victim,"
you just play that line
and you feel it in every pore of your body.
That's the power of Viola Davis.
It is my fault.
I did it.
We really hope you enjoyed the inside look at the film.
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