""It wasn't until I saw the film that it hit me, the gravitas and the importance of it," Ferguson said during a recent interview with IndieWire in New York City. "It was a screening in London and I remember us all, after the film ended, we all just sat completely silent. We [usually] don't really sit and look at the credits and the people involved, you kind of stand up and start talking. But there were no words. There was nothing to be said.""
""My [18-year-old] son turned to me and he said, 'It's the first role, mum, that you've played where I have seen my mum.' And I thought that is probably the best compliment that I've ever had because I think that's what we were trying to do, that sort of authentic nature of a human being.""
""Bigelow's explosively entertaining real-time thriller, told from multiple perspectives at various levels of government from situation room deputies to POTUS ... does not mince on hopelessness.""
Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite presents an 18-minute real-time nuclear crisis across three timelines and multiple government and military sectors. The narrative moves between Situation Room deputies and the president, creating pervasive hopelessness while remaining intensely entertaining. Rebecca Ferguson anchors the first segment as Captain Olivia Walker, a composed senior officer in the White House Situation Room. Ferguson's performance delivers emotional authenticity that resonated with viewers, provoking silence at a London screening and prompting a personal compliment from her son about seeing her as a real human being. The film balances bleakness with edge-of-the-seat tension.
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